Religion
Russia in Ukraine: What’s Religion Got to Do with It?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly invoked religion in an effort to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. How, specifically, has Putin used religion—and in...
View EventNative American Perspectives on Human Dignity
Integral human development is a holistic model of human flourishing articulated in Catholic social teaching and resonant in multiple religious, humanistic, and philosophical...
View EventOur Shared Paths to Justice: Learning from Desmond Tutu’s Faith and Activism
The late Desmond Tutu’s inspiring activism helped South Africa address the deep injustices that permeated daily life under Apartheid—a crushing system of institutionalized...
watch video2020 in Hindsight: The View from December 2021
Join the Ansari Institute for this panel discussion and hear insights from academics, journalists, and faith leaders. Together, they will explore the role of faith in the national...
View EventOn Foreign Policy and Seeing the Big Picture
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is a professor of political science and religious studies and the Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University, where she co-directs the...
Listen to PodcastSecular Left vs. Religious Right? A Discussion of Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics
American society is rapidly secularizing, a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity. And politics is a big part of the reason. Join us for a discussion...
View EventCourageous Christianity
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as we present Jemar Tisby ’02, president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective and author of The Color of Compromise and...
View EventBlack Church Theology
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Esau McCaulley, assistant professor of New Testament, Wheaton College, and author of Reading While Black: African American...
View EventConference: The Trauma of Communism
Tuesday, 06/29/2021, at 7:45 a.m. ET – Scholars, activists, and religious actors whose extraordinary experiences of living under communism, resisting the totalitarian state, and...
View EventFaith in the Story: Hindsight is 2020 Panel Discussion
Monday, 06/28/2021, at 5 p.m. ET – In the United States, 2020’s events prompted Americans to tell new stories about who we are in relation to each other and the rest of the...
View EventReasons for Our Hope
We’re delighted to share with you a resource closely related to the mission of The Global Church: a series of three videos (only 3 minutes long) on Jesus in the Bible and the...
watch videoProtecting Oak Flat and Other Indigenous Sacred Places
Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative hosted a discussion on April 29, 2021, about the importance of adequate protections for Indigenous sacred places in North...
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