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Since 2015 when huge numbers of refugees trudged into European countries, a radically energized West has been streaming like an uncontrolled meteorite toward an era of anger and
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Like a bomb explosion, the number of American deaths from opioid abuse has quadrupled in four years to 66,000. Globally, there are about 200,000 estimated opiate-related deaths,
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This is a summary of a longer report on service-learning by Med Wilkes Karraker. See author notes at the end. Persons living homeless fill the human landscape in
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Hate and hatred describe extreme dislike at a deep emotional level. Anything can be the object, but we suffer most when the object of hate happens to be
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Do you allow the ‘Golden Rule’ to rule your life? Or do you let the pursuit of gold consume your life? The Golden Rule is the popular moral
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Meaning as used here refers to thinking, caring and acting with purpose. Purpose refers to goals whereas meaning consists of the personal values underlying those purposes. Some interpret
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From the time of his election in 2013, Pope Francis stood out as a spiritual leader who put service to the poor and eradication of injustice at the
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“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question,” or so maintains the poet e.e. Cummings (Collected Poems, 1926, p. iii). Sufferers worldwide can be understood to
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At the end of 2016, the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) reported 65.3 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, a third of which qualified as refugees, over half of whom
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Bullying in general means intimidating or overpowering someone weaker. Racial bullying refers to bullying based on race or country-based discrimination, which is called xenophobia. Bullying severity ranges from
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