Denyse O'Leary wrote an article called "Faith, Hope and Love: Give them a Chance to Improve Your Health," which appears on page 66 of Hot Apple Cider. This article distills a key message of book, The Spiritual Brain (Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, Harper One, 2007), that spirituality is good for your physical and mental health.

Denyse says that the fact that spirituality may be good for you has received much more attention in science literature recently than it did decades ago, but that this fact has not usually been conveyed to the public. And actually, a recent spate of “new atheist” books would have you believe the opposite.

Denyse O’Leary is a columnist, author, and blogger. Her specialty is science and faith, and she covers the intelligent design controversy as a key beat. Her books include Faith@Science: Why Science Needs Faith in the Twentieth Century (J. Gordon Shillingforth), By Design Or By Chance: The Growing Controversy on the Origins of Life in the Universe (Castle Quay Books Canada/Augsburg Fortress), and The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul (with Dr. Mario Beauregard, HarperCollins One.)  

Read our Interview with Denyse