Looking for someone to feel your pain? Talk to a woman in her 50s. According to a new study of more than 75,000 adults, women in that age group are more empathic than men of the same age and than younger or older people. Overall, late middle-aged…

Over 1,000 youth and young adults from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portland and from the East Coast of the United States from Florida to Maine will participate in a “compassion rally and march” across the Casco Bay Bridge in support of acts of …

The philosopher and cultural thinker Roman Krznaric says, “Empathy can create a revolution … a revolution of human relationships.” He cites empathy tents erected by the Occupy movements in the United States and Britain as emblematic of a seeming…

Research reports that middle-aged women have the highest levels of empathy. I was pleased, maybe a little smug even, to read a recent report on research showing that middle-aged women have the most empathy of all segments of the population, publi…