Commentary

• "Holy Ghosts: On Purgatory and the Paranormal" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, October 28)
• "Pascalian Mockery as Love of Enemy" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, June 15)
• "Investigating Human Flourishing at Harvard" an interview with Brendan Case and Matthew Lee (Profectus, June 7)
• "Class, Employment, And The US Health Care System" by Brendan Case, Grant R. Martsolf, and  Joanne Spetz (Health Affairs, May 25)
• "Why some Americans are flourishing in a languishing nation" by Brendan Case and Tyler J. VanderWeele (NBCNews, March 6)
• "Remembering Our Lost Ties to Important Places Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Victor Counted, Richard Cowden, and Wojciech Kaftanski (ABC: Religion and Ethics, February 16)
• "Taking Kids to Church Matters More Than the ‘Right’ School, Study Suggests" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (Christianity Today, January 25)
• "Healthy? Maybe. But are you flourishing?" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (The Harvard Gazette, January  11)

• "Peace on Earth?" by Tim Lomas (Medium, December 14)
• "Directing Human Capabilities Toward Flourishing: A Measurement Framework For Health Services Research" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (and colleagues) (Health Affairs, December 8)
• “The Toll of Unbelief” by Brendan Case (First Things,  December 1)
• "Retirement and Meaningful Life" by Ayse Yemiscigil (Medium, November 26)
• "Neither Virtuous Nor Vicious: A Critique of Contemporary Virtue Ethics" by Brendan W. Case (Church Life Journal, November 18)
• "Empty Pews Are an American Public Health Crisis" by Tyler J. VanderWeele and Brendan W. Case (Christianity Today, October 19).
• "Bonaventure's Critique of Thomas Aquinas" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, September 16)
• "What is 'wellbeing' — and why should we measure it?" by Matthew T. Lee and Wojciech Kaftanski (ABC: Religion and Ethics, August 27)
• "The Medieval Sources of the West's Peculiar Psychology and Particular Prosperity" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, July 16)
• "How to Change the Past" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, June 18)
• "The Other Side of Languishing is Flourishing" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (New York Times, May 5)
• "Flourishing Quiz" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (New York Times, May 4)
• "Religious Participation and Women’s Health: A Reply to Homan and Burdette" by Brendan W. Case and Tyler J. VanderWeele (Institute for Family Studies, April 29)
• "Rallying religious and health leaders to prevent child abuse" by Jennifer S. Wortham (Harvard Gazette, April 2)
• "Marriage Made the West WEIRD" by Brendan W. Case (Genealogies of Modernity, March 22)
• "New Pandemic Research Explains How to Flourish in Difficult Times" by Matthew T. Lee (Education Week, March 17
• "The Brain Resides in the Soul (Not the Other Way Around)" by Brendan W. Case (Church Life Journal, March 15)
• "Well-being in Vulnerable Contexts During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Richard G. Cowden, Victor Counted, Tim Lomas and Andre Renzaho (Medium, January 6)

• "The Fragility of Flourishing: Augustine’s Critique of the Stoics" by Brendan W. Case (Medium, November 26)
• "Hope and Religion in a Time of Crisis: Evidence from Colombia and South Africa" by Richard Cowden (The Conversation, November 19)
• "Meaning in Life, Imagination, and Søren Kierkegaard" by Jeffrey Hanson (Medium, November 4)
• "T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, September 25)
• "Five Domains for Human Flourishing" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (Medium, September 24)
• "Science and the Sacraments: An Interview with a Catholic Epidemiologist at Harvard" Tyler J. VanderWeele (Catholic Herald, April 20)
• "Contagion, Suggestion, Imitation: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Wojciech Kaftanski (ABC: Religion and Ethics, March 27)

The coronavirus (Covid-19) has shaken the world. Here are some of the ways that the Human Flourishing Program is entering into the public conversation.

VanderWeele, T.J., Fulks, J., Plake, J.F., and Lee, M.T. (2021). National well-being measures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in online samples. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36:248–250.
H. K. Koh, A. C. Geller, T. J. VanderWeele (2020), Deaths From COVID-19 JAMA. 2021;325(2):133–134.
WEBINAR: Bridging the Gap between Science and Faith
VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Challenges estimating total lives lost in COVID-19 decisions: consideration of mortality related to unemployment, social isolation, and depression. JAMA, 324(5): 445–446.
Human Flourishing Blog: Flourishing Amidst Coronavirus
Pearce, N., Vandenbroucke, J., VanderWeele, T.J., Greenland, S. (2020). Accurate statistics on COVID-19 are essential for policy guidance and decisions. American Journal of Public Health, 110(7): 949-951
VanderWeele, T.J. (2020). Love of neighbor during pandemic: navigating the competing goods of religious gatherings and physical health. Journal of Religion and Health, 59: 2196–2202
Moral Guidance on Prioritizing Care During a Pandemic
WEBINAR: Pandemic Ethics: Human Flourishing During a Crisis
Science and the sacraments: an interview with a Catholic epidemiologist at Harvard
W. Kaftanski, Contagion, suggestion, imitation: Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic