Tag: Religion and society
Is democracy sacred?
Anthony D. Baker, Seminary of the Southwest
With millions of votes yet to be counted and the election far from being decided, President Trump falsely...
Celebrating Sister Ardeth Platte, anti-nuclear activist and ‘peacemaker in a hostile...
Carole Sargent, Georgetown University
To Sister Ardeth Platte, who died on Sept. 30 at 84, antinuclear activism was a form of public worship.
Explaining to a...
Finding joy in 2020? It’s not such an absurd idea, really
Angela Gorrell, George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University
The year 2020 hasn’t been one to remember – in fact, for a lot of...
What is charismatic Catholicism?
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross
Amy Coney Barrett reportedly will be Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme...
The complicated legacy of the Pilgrims is finally coming to light...
Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ voyage to Plymouth will...
Don’t be so shocked at the Falwell claims – research on...
Kelsy Burke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Many headlines in the past week have speculated publicly on the sex lives of Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife...
What the Falwell saga tells us about evangelicals and gender roles
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University
Jerry Falwell Jr. may well be wishing that a photo with his underwear showing and his arm around the waist...
Yes, God can be hurt, but not in the way Trump...
Sameer Yadav, Westmont College and Helen De Cruz, Saint Louis University
President Trump claimed recently that the prospect of a Biden presidency would “hurt God.”
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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
