Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Shutterstock.com
Dr. Josh Packard, Executive Director of the Springtide Research Institute sat down with CBN Faithwire and discussed some encouraging findings about the link between mental health and religion. The Institute focuses on 13-25 year-olds and Packard has spent many years researching the connections between faith and mental health. In sitting down with Faithwire, he insisted…

Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons
Chris Hemsworth is stepping back from acting after discovering he’s genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The actor discovered the news while filming the fifth episode of his Disney+ series “Limitless,” in which he meets with a doctor and discovers he has a genetic predisposition for the progressive disease that destroys memory and other essential mental…

Pixabay/Pexels
Mindfulness meditation worked as well as a standard drug for treating anxiety in the first head-to-head comparison. The study tested a widely used mindfulness program that includes 2 1/2 hours of weekly classes and 45 minutes of daily practice at home. Participants were randomly assigned to the program or everyday use of a generic drug…

Jaguar PS / Shutterstock.com
Sports analyst Terry Bradshaw joined the “Today” show and opened up about his battle with two different cancers. He had revealed on Fox Sports in October that he had been privately battling bladder cancer and a Merkel cell tumor for several months. There had been speculation about his health after a September episode where he…

Lightstock
  The Springtide Research Institute has released a report revealing some interesting insights about the positive impact of prayer and spiritual practices on individuals’ mental health. The study was the result of qualitative interviews with 100 interviewees and 10,000 survey respondents aged 13-25. According to the survey, 73% of young religious individuals agreed that their…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners