One of my favorite poems is by the late Irish poet and Noble Prize Winner, Seamus Heaney: St Kevin and the Blackbird. St Kevin was an early Irish saint who l...

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of ...

In beauty I walk, With beauty before me, I walk, With beauty behind me, I walk, With beauty above me, I walk, With beauty all around me, I walk, With beauty w...

This short chapter is in Edward Bastian’s book, Meditations for InterSpiritual Wisdom: Practices and Readings Drawn from the World’s Spiritual Traditions.  C...

This chapter, which I co-authored with my wife, Radhule Weininger, is published as a chapter in the book, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Cent...

This article was published as an editorial in the journal Palliative Medicine in December 2003.  In it, Kearney and Balfour Mount talk about healing and whol...

This article was published in the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA), in March 2009.  In April 2009, the article was featured in a related au...