If joy is more than “the intensification of happiness” what is it? Why can’t joy be created or counted on? Why does it often involve loss of self, as in parental love or religious ecstasy? Finally, ...

We study it from the perspective of the Christian account of the good life and the place joy has in that account. How is joy different from happiness, especially from a religious point of view?

Dear Readers: Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood.

If you have ever been in the enviable position of considering the difference between happiness and joy, you might find yourself nodding when the latter is characterized as being wilder and more ...

To our untutored and violently prejudiced mind, there are five poems in the volume so much better than all the rest that they should be printed in red. They are: "On Growing Old", by John ...

“Ross Gay is interested in joy,” and he’s back with another essay collection focused on action and what it means to create and share joy.

April is National Poetry Month. I compiled some of my (and my late stepfather's) poems in an E -Book collection entitled Melodies of the Heart: Poems of Life & Love. Nearly 100 poems.

“My work is loving the world.” “Messenger,” a poem by the American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019), begins like this. Like those words, Oliver passionately sings of love for the world ...

Dear Readers: Below are some of my favorite poems about spring and joy and the innocence and beauty of childhood.

Melodies of the Heart: Poems to Ease Your Day Poems: Stories lived, or stories heard. Passion, pain, joy, tears Posted Apr 17, 2011 ...