Berry’s belief that humans have a responsibility to care for God’s creation traces back to the Book of Genesis. So does an opposing argument for environmental exploitation.
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While pain may be universal, our experience of it is anything but.
Buddhist meditation and Pentecostal speaking in tongues could hardly look more different. But not to the brain.
Democracy cannot thrive, or even survive, when its leaders see themselves as godlike and divide citizens into believers and heretics, a scholar writes.
In his search for God in the apocalyptic world of a post-pandemic landscape, a theologian examines the idea of redemption in The Last of Us.
As human interactions with technology increase, AI-based religions are in our near future. While these religions carry risks for users, a tolerant mindset is important to consider worshippers’ rights.
Despite the diverse images used for God in Scripture and Christian tradition, male language and images predominate in contemporary Christian worship.
Secularization has fascinated sociologists for 200 years – but that doesn’t mean they always agree on what it is, or how much it’s happening.
This is far from the first time alternative words for God have been discussed.
From the earliest years of Christianity, some people have been recognised as having lived exceptionally holy lives.
For Wiccans, midsummer, with the maximum hours of sunlight, is the time for celebrating new life.
A professor of religion and science explains different views on immortality, from the religious perspective of President Jimmy Carter to the scientific, secular take of Carl Sagan.
A scholar of Christian spirituality argues that prayers are meant to bring together a faith community – something apps aren’t likely to achieve.
Two sociologists conducted interviews with atheist scientists and found that their views on religion are not as strident as the public perceives. Some even go to church.
A religion scholar explains how evangelicalism in the US is not a monolith. It includes a a variety of churches, theologies and practices.
A scholar of religion explains what those who fast for health and fitness can learn from religious traditions for a sustained, deeper and lifelong practice.
Famine was a constant threat during biblical times. The authors of the Old Testament used it to explain God’s wrath, but also as a narrative device.
The New York Times’ 1619 project and Donald Trump’s 1776 Commission had very different interpretations of US history. Similarly, the Bible has more than one narrative.
If God could break the laws of physics, why haven’t we seen any evidence of the laws ever being broken in the universe?
Although millions voted to put her face on the bill in an online poll, many still don’t know the story of her life and the role faith played in it.
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Associate Professor, New Testament, & Inaugural Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor and Chair of History Department, Colorado State University
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University
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Professor, Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor and Head of Pain Research, Aalborg University
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Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King's College London
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
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Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation
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Professor, Texas A&M University
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross