Tag: mourning
Burning Man highlights the primordial human need for ritual
Dimitris Xygalatas, University of Connecticut
At the end of each summer, hordes of people flock to the Black Rock...
How theater can help communities heal from the losses and trauma...
Joel Christensen, Brandeis University
President Joe Biden began his presidency by memorializing the 400,000 American lives that had been...
Finding joy in 2020? It’s not such an absurd idea, really
Angela Gorrell, George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University
The year 2020 hasn’t been one to remember – in fact, for a lot of...
Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and...
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...
