OTTUMWA — The dogs barked constantly, but the cats were cats. That wasn't the most important aspect of Eisenhower Elementary first-graders reading to the animals, though. It was the act of showing up.

The facts about teens and their mental health are stark. According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, 20 percent of teens ages 13 to 18 have a mental health condition; 11 percent have a mood ...

After recently traveling to Lesvos, Greece with Shepherd of the Valley I gained a new appreciation for refugees after meeting with several during the trip. Each day of the trip I was constantly ...

What are we really giving when we give? I met a man in his 20s who had gone through open-heart surgery to have one of the valves in his heart replaced. Within one week, doctors discovered the new ...

CBS Mornings lead national correspondent David Begnaud explores the importance of compassion with a visit to Davis, California. In that town is a gathering place known as the compassion bench. David ...

We think of compassion as being easy. But we seldom realize we have internal demons to address before true compassion is possible. For those not familiar, Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary V, for short) is the ...

ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Finally, this hour, a Mormon bishop in Taylorsville, Utah, went to great lengths last Sunday to teach his congregation a lesson. David Musselman disguised himself as a homeless ...

The sixth-graders in Missy Klapperich's social studies classroom sat in a circle on Friday, trying to get their heads around poverty in Afghanistan. The circle had 30 chairs, and each student was ...