Closing the Science, Technology, & Religion Gap

James K. A. Smith  |  Center for Religious Humanism / IMAGE Journal

The Heresy of Paraphrase

Dr. Smith is undertaking a research project supported by Templeton Religion Trust titled “The Art of Understanding and the Heresy of Paraphrase: Toward a Science of Art’s Irreducibility.” Dr. Smith is a professor of philosophy at Calvin University and editor in chief of Image journal, a literary quarterly at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery. The research seeks to forge new way...

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Tina Ramirez  |  Hardwired, Inc.

Building Peaceful Pluralism in Iraq, One Student at a Time

The end of fighting rarely means a clean break from the conflicts that caused it. But with positive intervention, those conflicts can be diminished and healed over time. That kind of reversal is happening in portions of Iraq, reports Tina Ramirez, M.A., president and founder of Hardwired Global. As a powerful example, she tells the story of a school director named Zyad in Mosul, a major city in no...

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SCORE  |  Templeton Religion Trust

Good or Bad? Investigating the Social Consequences of Religion

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Dominic Johnson & Michael Price  |  St. Anthony’s College, Oxford and Brunel University, London

An Evolutionary Perspective

At least seven billion of the world’s nearly eight billion people today subscribe to some sort of religion, compared to only about 500 million atheists.* Clearly, religious belief has enjoyed staying power in human history. But why? So far, answers to that question have been mostly based on opinions rather than empirical evidence. At the turn of the 20th century, Harvard philosopher and psycholo...

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Joshua R. Good  |  Faith Angle Forum / Ethics and Public Policy Forum Center, Inc Worldwide

Religion is always in the room: Faith Angle Europe

Journalists play an outsized role in society, because they report-out on and help interpret the events that shape our lives. Their views–including their biases–punch above their weight, as the old phrase goes. They hold power to help us better understand. And while trust in the mainstream media has declined in the US and elsewhere, reporters, columnists, and editors still hold massive influenc...

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Cristine Legare  |  The University of Texas at Austin

The Culture of Schooling

Usually, formal education starts with “the three Rs,” reading, writing, and arithmetic. And in some of the world, there is an increasing focus on STEM education – science, technology, engineering, and math.  Throughout the world, formal schooling is commonly understood as a process for learning the content, knowledge, skills, and norms required for being a productive and successful adult in...

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