When Does an Individual Human Life Begin? Learning Science from Scientists By Scott F. Gilbert When is a science an ethnoscience? When can we say that the observations of nature are being proscribed by the religious framework of the culture? Actually, in the United States, embryology is in danger of Read more
Aborting Rights By Catherine Keller In my May 2022 blog for Counterpoint, I was reflecting on how collective crises like the war in Ukraine, a global pandemic, and (often racialized) threats to democracy inescapably distract from the mounting, world-encompassing catastrophe of climate change. All these matters rightly demand and dangerously Read more
Do We Live in the Same World? Some Reflections on Polarization By Susannah Crockford When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last week, it seemed like the United States was divided in two once again. Supporters of legal abortion despaired at the harm done to health, economic opportunities, and Read more
Hunting Where the Ducks Are: The Big-Picture of White Evangelical Populism in the US By Marcia Pally White evangelicals comprise a full 25 percent of American voters. Many have supported Vladimir Putin, both before the invasion of Ukraine and since. In 2015, Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham, leader of Read more