Tag: Religion and society
The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation...
Adam Meyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Kristy Ferraro, University of Michigan
Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and...
Why Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ endures
Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross
Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar...
800 years after his death, the legends and legacy of Francis...
Vanessa Corcoran, Georgetown University
On the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the...
What loving-kindness meditation is and how to practice it in the...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
A popular New Year’s resolution is to take up meditation – specifically mindfulness meditation....
The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to...
Christian Goodwillie, Hamilton College
Director Mona Fastvold’s new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” features actor Amanda Seyfried in...
Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a...
3 states are challenging precedent against posting the Ten Commandments in...
3 states are challenging precedent against posting the Ten Commandments in public schools – cases that could land back at the...
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
