Tag: Faith
What’s going on when the Virgin Mary appears and statues weep?...
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
Claims of appearances of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been...
Black college students who turn to their faith think less about suicide
Janelle R. Goodwill, University of Chicago
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God and guns often go together in US history – this...
Joseph P. Slaughter, Wesleyan University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion?
Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University
Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to...
Faith still shapes morals and values even after people are ‘done’...
Philip Schwadel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Sam Hardy, Brigham Young University
Religion forms a moral foundation for billions of...
Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of...
Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
The Biden administration has revived a plan to put Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill after Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary...
Is democracy sacred?
Anthony D. Baker, Seminary of the Southwest
With millions of votes yet to be counted and the election far from being decided, President Trump falsely...
Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Utrecht University and Ammar Maleki, Tilburg University
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
