Tag: Religion and society
Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
Henry Bial, University of Kansas
In the days leading up to Easter Sunday, Christians around the world will participate...
SCOTUS is about to decide whether a public school football coach...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
The Supreme Court has consistently banned school-sponsored prayer in public K-12 schools, whether...
Kyiv’s Jews, persecuted under Polish-Lithuanian, Russian, Nazi and Soviet regimes, now...
Victoria Khiterer, Millersville University
While hundreds of Jews are leaving Kyiv amid Russian attacks, many more, led by the...
Who are the Jesuits?
Dorian Llywelyn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
For centuries, the Jesuits have worn many hats: missionaries,...
Skateboarding’s spiritual side – skaters find meaning in falls and breaking...
Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University
Over the last decade the numbers of those identifying as “Spiritual But Not Religious,”...
Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s...
Lena Surzhko Harned, Penn State
A curious new church was dedicated on the outskirts of Moscow in June 2020:...
Can religion and faith combat eco-despair?
Rita D. Sherma, Graduate Theological Union
Scientists regularly study the ongoing degradation of Earth’s environment and track the changes...
Happy Twosday! Why numbers like 2/22/22 have been too fascinating for...
Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina
This Feb. 22, the world hits an unprecedented milestone. It’s the date itself:...
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
