science and religion

Is Dylann Roof solely to blame for the murder of 9 people in the Emanuel AME church in Charleston? How about our nation’s inadequate gun laws or pervasive racism? Or are we all to blame? Pick just…

The cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter is well known for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence, his brilliant writing about language and identity, and for his classic, Pulitzer Prize…

Trying to check out her number, trying to run down her line. Operator said that’s priv’ledged information, And it ain’t no business of mine. It’s floodin’ down in Texas, poles are out in Utah, Gotta…

In a brief article in an unassuming 1967 edition of Science, a medieval historian from the University of California argued a now infamous thesis in my own field of religion and ecology. “Christianity…

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…

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…

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…

In the storerooms of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in Connecticut, there’s a glass jar that contains a steak. The grayish meat floats in a solution of alcohol and water, unable to rot…

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…

What do the Mad Max franchise, protests of the Keystone pipeline, and the idolization of Theodore Roosevelt have in common? They all reflect attitudes towards environmentalism that, according to Mark…