What is love? I imagine if you asked a hundred people you’d get a plethora of different answers. Their response would be based on their paradigm, the filter or lenses through which you see life. For ...

As a classicist, I am often asked for Greek and Roman reflections on love for holidays and weddings. I usually admit at the outset that ancient ideas about love rarely match modern expectations. Take, ...

Dear Dr. E: I’ve been reading the Bible a bit lately, and I can’t help but notice its repeated mandate to love everyone. How do conservatives reconcile this with their judgmental attitude toward LGBTQ ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

Valentine’s Day spawned a discussion in my Mass Communications class of how the media – primarily the movies – has influenced our definition of love. It’s a definition that is clearly generational.

What better subject to explore during Valentine's Day week than the meaning of love in our lives? Earlier in the week I offered thoughts that focused on the difficulties of forging and maintaining ...

When it comes to defining love (romantic, brotherly, erotic, platonic), no one has come up with a term to describe the complex emotions that arise when love and survival become dangerously intertwined ...