A hospice chaplain learns that people carry burdensome secrets and regrets, and the prospect of dying makes them want to unload them.

For people of faith, it can be hard not to view worry as some kind of personal failure.

In the last 10 years, the number of heroin-related overdoses nearly quadruple.

Deaths and injuries spike for children under 5, with 3-year-olds the most common shooters and victims.

The genius of A.A. is that it is a proto-religious fellowship in which people in desperate need somehow rediscover the fire of a foundational miracle.

How can one prepare to lose the self-consciousness that makes self-offering worship possible?