Virtues and Social Health

Building a healthy social environment

What would we consider a healthy social environment? Even though wisdom traditions have had a lot to say about what may be an ideal society, that question was first asked in scientific terms by the World Health Organization in 1947, in recognition of the fact that individual physical and mental health alone are not enough […]

How to make sense of 4 families slain in 4 days

By Jesse Washington, Associated Press national writer It was a chilling series of horrors: four mass killings involving four different families, in four states over four bloody days, leaving 14 adults and seven children dead. Criminologists say this tragic cluster was nothing more than random chance, not a sign of growing violence in America. Yet […]