https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to climate change en https://politicalresearch.org/2021/02/27/its-not-over-yet In the wake of four years of far-right populist governance culminating in a violent insurrection, PRA is holding steady in the knowledge that it’s not over yet. Join PRA for a five-part webinar series as we evaluate the state of the Right. Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:06:28 EST Political Research Associates fb199bc5-1102-4b83-a24e-a04132a1a992 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/05/31/paul-schraders-first-reformed-depicts-death-struggle-between-hope-and-despair Warning: numerous spoilers ahead. “Who will release me from the body of this death?” This question, posed rhetorically in Paul’s Letter to the Romans, has become a real question for the Rev. Ernst Toller, a 40-something preacher, splendidly acted by… Thu, 31 May 2018 12:59:51 EDT Peter Laarman 849d516c-aa49-4daa-9ba2-775f8521e15b https://religiondispatches.org/2018/01/12/elaine-howard-ecklund-wants-dispel-myths-surrounding-religious-resistance-science Sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund studies the intersection of religion and science in Houston, a city with Texas-sized helpings of both: Joel Osteen preaches to packed houses in the old Houston Rockets stadium fifteen minutes from the Texas Medical Center, the… Fri, 12 Jan 2018 02:39:17 EST Sammy Feldblum ed658691-6578-4876-b7ec-84b3664fc52b https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/06/why-natural-disasters-were-perfect-timing-anti-lgbt-nashville-statement Amid all the ruminations and critiques of the Nashville Statement, one aspect sticks out to me as particularly curious: the timing. Why did the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood choose this precise moment to trumpet evangelical Christianity’s longstanding, categorical… Wed, 06 Sep 2017 04:47:44 EDT Kristel Clayville 11897090-074b-4cc1-9177-78bc57d5668d https://religiondispatches.org/2016/09/15/its-water-and-other-lowlights-presidential-science-debate Jill Stein has gotten savvier on vaccines. Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:53:31 EDT Michael Schulson 40874a81-d76b-4eb5-bbc7-0b0a8785d1e3 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/30/gluten-phobia-sacred-volcanoes-undercover-atheists-best-religion-and-science-writing This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage of the intersection of religion and science—those too-familiar stories in which religion and science are represented as either fundamentally at odds, or oddly conjoined. Over… Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:00:25 EST Andrew Aghapour 24fccefb-43a2-428d-97a5-2dc8f2e7ccc1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/14/post-paris-reflections-we-may-have-learn-hope Now that the goals are reached, the document signed, the minsters packed out of Paris, the real work begins. For a change, we in the global climate movement can be proud of ourselves. We have a good start. The middle… Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:55:37 EST Donna Schaper 3031b867-3fa9-44ec-9a13-0163c969ba17 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/25/masturbation-porn-bigger-priority-planet-poverty-us-bishops In another sign of just how far the agendas of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Pope Francis have diverged, it’s worth noting that at their recently concluded fall plenary, the bishops signaled strongly about what’s on their radar… Wed, 25 Nov 2015 06:31:00 EST Patricia Miller 9107f63c-f2d5-40ef-be10-c0c4968fb84b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/07/were-not-fighting-about-politics-were-fighting-about-god-diana-butler-bass-wants We are human beings, and we build things. Wed, 07 Oct 2015 08:50:16 EDT Jesse James DeConto f822b4bb-0875-4ade-af2a-80bb3ef708cf https://religiondispatches.org/2015/10/01/we-shouldnt-be-surprised-francis-met-kim-davis When Pope Francis came to New York last week traffic came to a standstill. But traffic on social media was brisk, with many of my friends from the social justice world celebrating the Pope’s “liberal” (read: barely modern and centrist… Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:50:13 EDT Kara Loewentheil 97b4c206-f867-44c9-b073-96be8cfa6207 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/28/deifying-pope-francis-obscures-where-hes-so-so-right-so-so-wrong We are compulsive god-makers. And this penchant was in florid display this past week as Pope Francis wasn’t just welcomed but deified. Pennsylvania Congressman Bob Brady was, perhaps, the deifier-in-chief as he pilfered the pope’s water glass, sipped reverently from… Mon, 28 Sep 2015 02:03:27 EDT Daniel C. Maguire ab31f530-4909-4ec6-81ef-fd2eb93eaf8b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/24/conservative-points-popes-speech-include-liberal-chasers The narrative going into Pope Francis’ historic speech to Congress was that it wouldn’t be political, focusing instead on the “pastoral,” or “partisan” because Catholic social teaching cuts across issues identified with the left and the right. Writing in the… Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:37:53 EDT Patricia Miller e25cc2d4-d3d9-40a3-92e4-a0ded79ee405 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/23/conservative-catholics-try-domesticate-laudato-si Conservative Catholics are working overtime to downplay the radical nature of Laudato si, the pope’s encyclical that offers a sweeping condemnation of the free-market, libertarian Catholicism that has largely overtaken the institutional church in the US. In its weekly email… Tue, 23 Jun 2015 04:40:39 EDT Patricia Miller 69a74fdf-7473-426a-90de-872127cf89df https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/18/ignoring-pope-climate-change-not-using-contraception The encyclical is finally here. Laudato si was officially released today and has already produced a tremendous amount of commentary online. And yet the political ramifications of the encyclical, at least in the United States, remain controversial. Much digital ink… Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:55:52 EDT Kevin M. Lowe a52708b6-1eaf-47ce-b7ed-171c17c02bb9 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/18/did-pope-francis-just-end-religion-and-science-conflict It’s unclear what kind of political impact Laudato si, the first encyclical of Francis’ papacy will have, but from a scholarly perspective it’s already doing something significant: scrambling one of the dominant paradigms for thinking about relationships between science and… Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:00:57 EDT Donovan Schaefer 39e7a303-bb6f-48a7-ac02-a5daf700d5cd https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/18/numbers-jeb-opposes-francis-climate-change-his-peril Ahead of the release of Pope Francis’ first major encyclical Laudato si, dealing with global warming, Republican politicians have been falling all over themselves trying to say they know how to do his job better than he does. It’s particularly… Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:43:59 EDT Daniel Schultz c9f5c31e-09dc-4434-892c-285b720120ec https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/15/white-and-latino-catholics-living-different-worlds-climate-change Ahead of Pope Francis’s highly anticipated encyclical on the environment, due out Thursday, Public Religion Research Institute has found a remarkable split between Latino and white Catholics on climate change. According to data collected for the November 2014 PRRI/AAR Religion… Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:15:23 EDT Sarah Posner bf769a8b-33e4-416e-afcc-efcad27487fc https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/30/no-climate-change-deniers-arent-modern-day-galileos Let’s say you’re a prominent climate change denier. And then Pope Francis comes along and announces that climate change is going to be a major item on his agenda for the coming months. What do you do? Do you: (A)… Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:36:46 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson ffe53370-182c-448c-995e-6c88ac57dd83 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/30/what-republicans-mean-when-they-compare-climate-change-religion Last week, Texas Republican Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal comparing climate change to religion. Smith argues that the “facts alone,” and not preordained ideological commitments… Thu, 30 Apr 2015 05:16:25 EDT Andrew Aghapour, Michael Schulson d7e44ff4-e336-47c2-90f3-2de8ed2efeed https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/05/freezing-our-way-fiery-hell Psalms of lament are being sent heavenward this winter. Like a kid, I’m hoping for a snow day today. The forecasters have gone apocalyptic again with inches of white fluff expected overnight. I wake at dawn and pull back the… Thu, 05 Mar 2015 03:13:11 EST Steve A. Wiggins 4de11925-5f76-4d47-a27b-f3ecd4a044e5 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/15/turning-students-citizens-religious-studies-edition A response to Ivan Strenski’s “Can Religion Professors Save the Planet?” Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:36:40 EST James Miller 646ade1c-7e60-4824-b0f3-7c69eb50f2ab https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/12/saving-planet-sounds-strangely-religious-response-ivan-strenski The ongoing debate regarding activism and the academy: climate change edition. Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:16:24 EST Evan Berry e869129e-8c44-4f69-98d6-96dc9e0c738c https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/09/can-religion-professors-save-planet Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion. Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:53:47 EST Ivan Strenski 84160ba0-ab68-49d9-8fc7-08da69c2d460 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/10/29/stop-debunking-climate-change-deniers If you don’t want a culture war, don’t act like a culture warrior. Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:15:39 EDT Michael Schulson e0491a3a-5883-4e21-b950-a161d31e5197 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/10/09/climate-change-denial-guide-humanities Is it really feasible to have this conversation without any reference to human values? Wed, 09 Oct 2013 02:56:16 EDT Michael Schulson fb7642a2-1302-4941-a4ea-78414112fb6d