Suzanne Crawford O’Brien What prompts them to choose health and safety over potential revenue?
COVID-19, Colonialism, and Native American Resilience
Our Latest Time of Trial
Adam McDuffie The system is broken from top to bottom.
Introducing Don’t Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality
Gary Laderman This book attempts to explain why I study death and to recall how I got to, and stuck with, the topic.
Keeping Duke Ellington Alive in Matter and in Spirit
Vaughn A. Booker African American religious practices of celebrating Duke Ellington, for example, chart the new lives—or afterlives—that these deceased musicians gain from those left to interpret their legacies anew.
Black Lives, Sacred Matters
Gary Laderman Religion is always mostly about material bodies.
Bodies Down, Bible Aloft: A Humanist Take on Scripture and Trump’s Photo Op
Anthony B. Pinn I agree that if the Bible is to maintain any relevance, a reading of the Bible against the Bible is required—that is to say a poetic turn that dismantles and deconstructs, that renders uncomfortable those tied to restrictive codes of being and well being.
Does Transfusion of Convalescent Plasma Make Us Cannibals?
Manju Lata Prasad But our civilization has evolved since these times and decries all forms of cannibalism.
Disturbing Deaths and National Disunity
Gary Laderman The national body politic is dead, another corpse that, perhaps in this case, doesn’t deserve a public ceremony but instead is rotting publicly before our very eyes.
Islam and Caring Communities
Shenila Khoja-Moolji Muslim ethics, however, guide us to build caring communities. A caring community does not leave the labor of care to the few; instead, it shares this labor.
Sacred American Values in Pandemic Times
Gary Laderman Where will Americans put their faith in this unprecedented time of crisis?