I contend that for a religious ritual to be “alive” is for it to be responsive to spiritual truths as they are played out by or among the pe...

The film True Confessions (1981) centers around a priest who is the heir-apparent and assistant of the cardinal of the Archdiocese of Los An...

The subversion of democracy in former French colonies in Africa stymies the African Union from developing from a mere confederation, wherein...

It is, unfortunately, all too easy for the human brain to relegate the humanity of other human beings—to dehumanize them. This is the leitmo...

On how to decolonize Eastern Europe, its states must disentangle themselves from the history of the U.S.S.R. and even Russia. This is not si...

India took an equivocal position on Russia’s invasion. This is surprising at first glance because India has been so concerned to protect its...

On February 21-23, 2024, Rowan Williams, a former archbishop of Canterbury, delivered a series of lectures on the topic of solidarity in mor...

Agriculture is a major source of carbon and methane emissions, which in turn are responsible for the general trend of the warming of the pla...

There is a temptation, especially since the global average temperature reached the 1.5C increase threshold in 2023 much faster than anticipa...

The sheer brazenness with which countries ironically recognized as being sovereign states by international law ignore international law even...

William Paley claimed that the “university exists to form the minds and the moral sensibilities of the next generation of clergymen, magistr...

Even though it is sometimes difficult to "read between the lines" to assess whether or not people in an organization are welcoming...

Higher education is not valued equally in the various American states. Where academia is not particularly valued, other things can intercede...

The Devil’s Arithmetic   (1999) can be classified superficially as a coming-of-age film, for Hanna, the protagonist, starts out being immatu...

I submit that not enough attention is brought to bear on the root of the warming of the planet: the huge increase in human population in the...