All my life I've studied and worked hard, but I've realised that there's much more to life than that. I've slowly come to realise that it's not about happiness, wealth or material success either. But ...

When the meaning of life is brought up, the usual attitude towards it is mystification. Few people in modern times take the meaning of life for granted. They assume that it is the same as the mystery ...

There is a growing consensus among social scientists and philosophers alike that a sense of life’s meaning and purpose is a key aspect of flourishing, and one that is not reducible either to happiness ...

One viewpoint: Without the idea of cosmic order or divine design, life will lack depth, direction, framework, moral foundation, purpose, etc. It will lose human aspiration and significance, reverence ...

Arthur Brooks’s new book is enjoyable, smart, and often wise, but a search for true meaning must bring us to Christ. Sometimes this looks like basic fidelity to Scripture, which depicts Christ as the ...

Many have pondered life’s Great Questions. How big is the universe? Is there life on other planets? Does God exist? Admittedly, as a young person I felt ill-suited to address such heady questions. Any ...

Finding a sense of meaning in life is consistently linked to lower levels of depression across hundreds of independent samples. A sweeping new review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders ...

The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument. To this we might add a corollary: there is a certain kind of conservative pundit who has never really had a ...