Tag: Religion and society
This god shoots love darts – but no, it’s not Cupid
Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College
With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid aiming his arrows...
What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of...
Joel Christensen, Brandeis University
Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of the chubby winged god Cupid taking aim...
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...
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
