Tag: Religion and society
What an old folktale can teach us about the ‘annoying persistence’...
Perin Gürel, University of Notre Dame
Fear of reprisals from the Trump administration has made many people cautious about...
Why government support for religion doesn’t necessarily make people more religious
Brendan Szendro, McGill University
The IRS will offer religious congregations more freedom to endorse political candidates without jeopardizing their...
The beach wasn’t always a vacation destination – for the ancient...
Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Tufts University
Many of us are heading to the beach to bask in the sun and unwind...
Yellowstone has been a ‘sacred wonderland’ of spiritual power and religious...
Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes College
Nearly 5 million travelers come to Wyoming to visit Yellowstone National Park each year,...
How the QAnon movement entered mainstream politics – and why the...
Art Jipson, University of Dayton
The Justice Department asked a federal court on July 18, 2025, to unseal grand...
Conflicted, disillusioned, disengaged: The unsettled center of Jewish student opinion after...
Jonathan Krasner, Brandeis University
As commencement season comes to a close, many campuses remain riven by the Israel-Hamas war....
Supreme Court’s one-sentence order closes the door to Catholic charter school...
Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton
The saga over St. Isidore of Seville, which hoped to become the nation’s...
Pope Leo XIV: Why the College of Cardinals chose the Chicago...
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025,...
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
