by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 4, 2026 | Love, Sacred, Spirituality
Magnificent people always attempt to extend compassion, mercy, and grace. We all admire mercy, grace, and compassion. Few of us can clearly distinguish among them, and fewer still know which one a difficult moment actually requires. Yet much of what determines the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2026 | Joy, Love, Sacred, Spirituality
The greatest tragedy is not that magnificence is rare but we often fail to notice it until it is gone. I want to tell you about an average Tuesday when I took my tri-weekly adventure to Whole Foods. I was dancing at the meat counter to the Madonna they were blasting...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 18, 2026 | Joy, Love, Relationships, Sacred, Spirituality
The unexpected encounters with love and humanity that changed my life. When I was 16, I spent a fall weekend on a Church retreat on the South Side of Chicago with about 30 other teenagers. We stayed at Hyde Park Union Church with pastors from our local Church. We...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Sacred, Spirituality
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 3, 2026 | Men, Sacred, Spirituality
Why no man is ever beyond hope. The Question Most Men Never Ask There are men suffering right now who do not know they are suffering. There are men who know they are suffering but believe it is simply the nature of things — that this is what life is, that this is what...
