At six years old, Tom Monaghan watched his mother walk away, leaving him and his brother at a Catholic orphanage in Michigan.
She wasn’t abandoning them. She was trying to survive after their father died. But Tom didn’t know that.
This Memorial Day, remember the four military chaplains who sacrificed their lives to save others during World War II.
Their selfless acts saved many from a sinking ship, the Dorchester, in 1943.
More than eighty years later, their actions remind us what human courage can look like when fear and chaos take over.
Their story resonates today because much of the world continues searching for hope and stability.
Continue Reading “Memorial Day: How Four Brave Chaplains Gave Their Lives So Others Could Live” A new way of rethinking your purpose could be the boost needed for a rich and long life.
That’s what Gordon Christensen taught as a Harvard professor.
He knew that money and acclaim were not the most important metrics for success in life even though he was named the world’s most influential business thinker in 2011 by Thinkers50.
Continue Reading “How Purpose Is Your Secret Key to Living Rich and Long” Robert Fulghum may have found peace and purpose for us all when he posed a question to Alexander Papaderos, PhD Philosophy, during a lecture at the site of a Nazi massacre in Crete during WWII.
“What is the meaning of life?”
Fulghum queried Papaderos, the founder of a peace institute built on the site.
Alexander Papaderos was taking questions after his lecture attended by Fulghum.
The famous author, like the rest of the crowd, was horrified after hearing how the Nazis . . .
And now he stands before this crowd, calmly lecturing and taking questions about this unspeakable murder.
As Fulghum asks about the purpose of life, nervous laughter engulfs the daring question.
But Papaderos willingly answered Fulghum.
Continue Reading “Discover peace and purpose in the middle of your brokenness” What does living your best life really mean?
Pleasure? Success? Money? Purpose? Faith?
Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, Buddha and Jesus offered radically different answers.
It’s a question people have wrestled with for centuries.
The most popular humanities course at Yale University explores this in a class entitled, “Life Worth Living.” Multiple professors teach it.
They compare how the great philosophies answer these questions.
How you answer may determine whether you look back on life with satisfaction or regret.
But first, there’s another question.
Continue Reading “How Do You Know You’re Living Your Best Life?”