Tag: Religion and society
What is walking meditation?
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, walking...
Pope Benedict accused of mishandling sex abuse cases: 4 essential reads
Molly Jackson, The Conversation
When Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 – the first leader of the Catholic Church...
To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate the...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
Traditionally, for Christian-Jewish families – or at least in writing about them –...
As spiritualism’s popularity grows, photographer Shannon Taggart takes viewers inside the...
Beth Saunders, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences...
What partnership looks like in Mormon marriages is shifting – slowly
Caroline Kline, Claremont Graduate University
Discussions about women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known...
Money, schools and religion: A controversial combo returns to the Supreme...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
Since 1947, one topic in education has regularly come up at the Supreme...
Women lead religious groups in many ways – besides the growing...
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado Boulder
What constitutes women’s leadership in religious communities is open to many interpretations. In...
Prayer apps are flooding the market, but how well do they...
Dorian Llywelyn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Hallow, a Catholic prayer and meditation app that claims...
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...
