Tag: Religion and society
Vaccine guilt is good – as long it doesn’t stop you...
Elizabeth Lanphier, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Over 100 million Americans have now received at least one dose...
Should there be a limit on how much debt a young...
Paul Schofield, Bates College
Young Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 owe over US$1 trillion in student...
This Passover, as in the past, will be a time to...
Samuel L. Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder
Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will,...
‘Sex addiction’ isn’t a justification for killing, or really an addiction...
Joshua B. Grubbs, Bowling Green State University
A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas...
‘Doing nothing’ is all the rage – is it a form...
Ingrid Nelson, Amherst College
The pandemic has either created too much free time or too little. Kitchen-table commutes and...
How New York’s 19th-century Jews turned Purim into an American party
Zev Eleff, Touro College
Purim, which falls this year on Feb. 26, ranks among Judaism’s most joyous holidays.
In Texas, price gouging during disasters is illegal – it is...
Elizabeth Brake, Rice University
In Houston, as millions suffered power and water outages, food shortages and subfreezing temperatures, another...
What are the origins of Lent?
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
In late winter, many Christian denominations observe a 40-day period of...
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Why a 14th-century mystic appeals to today’s ‘spiritual but not religious’...
Joel Harrington, Vanderbilt University
The percentage of Americans who do not identify with any religious tradition continues to rise annually. Not all of them, however,...
