Tag: Religion
Why are people calling Bitcoin a religion?
Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University
Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to...
What the world can learn from the Buddhist concept loving-kindness
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
As the world deals with the trauma caused by COVID-19, World Kindness Day, observed on...
The Catholic Church sex abuse crisis: 4 essential reads
Molly Jackson, The Conversation
Revelations about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church have been emerging for decades. But in...
What Harvard’s humanist chaplain shows about atheism in America
Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota and Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
At the end of August 2021, Harvard University’s organization...
How religious fervor and anti-regulation zealotry laid the groundwork for America’s...
Conor Heffernan, University of Texas at Austin
Spend any time watching television or scrolling through social media, and you’ll...
What would the ancient Greeks think of an Olympics with no...
Vincent Farenga, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Because of a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases, the...
Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous
Michael J. Poulin, University at Buffalo
When Japanese chef Yoshihiro Murata travels, he brings water with him from Japan....
Faith still shapes morals and values even after people are ‘done’...
Philip Schwadel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Sam Hardy, Brigham Young University
Religion forms a moral foundation for billions of...
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...
