Robert Emmons, alongside Fuller scholars and practitioners, delves into the science of gratitude and the ways it shapes our relationship with one another, with God, and with the wider natural world.
Robert Emmons introduces the history of gratitude research and shares about the multifaceted positive outcomes gratitude has on individuals and communities.
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Amos Yong uses a biblical and theological lens to consider how worship practices can help us experience and nurture gratitude.
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Rebecca Baer, drawing parallels from her research on joy, reflects on both distorted and positive forms of gratitude.
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Robert Emmons, Amos Yong, and Rebecca Baer discuss the relationships gratitude has with lament, trauma, and escapism, in a Q&A moderated by Brad D. Strawn.
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Robert Emmons discusses gratitude in spiritual contexts and how gratitude directed toward God can be formative to who we are.
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Pamela Ebstyne King explains how gratitude can both guide us and propel us toward thriving and the good life.
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Hannah Che considers the dynamics between Christian gratitude and suffering, lament, and pain, through a particular Korean cultural lens.
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Robert Emmons, Pamela Ebstyne King, and Hannah Che discuss gratitude as it relates to love, humility, and justice, in a Q&A moderated by Brad D. Strawn.
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Robert Emmons reflects on our capacity for gratitude to the natural world and how gratitude may help combat climate change.
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Wilmer G. Villacorta meditates on how we have come to objectify others and how gratitude can be a step toward witnessing God’s shalom and justice in creation.
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Bethany Ferguson talks about our increasing disconnection to the environment and the need for a humble recognition of our interconnectedness.
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Robert Emmons and Wilmer G. Villacorta discuss our loss of connection to the natural world and our need to both give thanks to the earth and give thanks to God for it, in a Q&A moderated by Brad D. Strawn.
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Fuller’s School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy’s 2022 Integration Symposium featured Robert Emmons, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Davis, who delivered his lectures on “The Science and Spirit of Gratefulness: 25 Years of Progress.”