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Religiosity, transcendent accountability, and civic engagement
Academic experts from Baylor University and Pepperdine University explore religiosity, transcendent accountability, and civic engagement.
Upscaling integrated mental health services and systems for people of forced migration
How can realist impact evaluation be used to upscale the integration of mental health programs for people of forced migration? Nancy Clark, an Associate Professor from the University of Victoria, investigates.
Global Centre for Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters (GC3TW)
Leveraging international expertise, the Global Centre for Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters (GC3TW) currently studies water resources spanning the U.S. and Canadian geopolitical boundaries.
Policy priorities for gender and entrepreneurship
Read here about policy suggestions from an academic-practitioner collaboration for gender and entrepreneurship.
Appreciating biodiversity science: Why biodiversity should be a big science
Professor F. Guillaume Blanchet from Université de Sherbrooke posits the importance of treating biodiversity science as a big science to reach the goals set during the COP15 on biodiversity.
Violent extremism: The journey in and the pathway out
Understanding and addressing violent extremism goes beyond just ideology. Morten Bøås of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs suggests that looking at the underlying reasons and addressing its root cause might be crucial to finding solutions.
The gender stereotyping of entrepreneurship
Professors Jennings and Tonoyan distill prior research and chart avenues for future research.
Offender-led religious movements: Why we should have faith in prisoner-led reform
Byron R. Johnson and Sung Joon Jang, both from Baylor University and Pepperdine University, suggest that the solution to criminal justice reform could lie in the prisoner-led faith programmes, which provide positive, cost-efficient rehabilitation.
Confronting harassment and violence in Canadian workplaces: Insights and evolutions
Dr. Adriana Berlingieri, Research Associate and Barb MacQuarrie, Community Director at the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children in Canada, discuss the prevalence and impact of harassment and violence in the workplace.
Space exploration and the nature of the divine
Revd Professor David Wilkinson, Astrophysicist at Durham University, highlights space exploration and the nature of the divine.
Revd Professor David Wilkinson – Durham University
Revd Professor David Wilkinson is Project Director of Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science, a project based at St John’s College, Durham University, funded by Templeton Religion Trust and the John Templeton Foundation. He has PhDs in Astrophysics and Systematic Theology.
Prison chaplaincy, reclaim space for the divine
David Buick, President of IPCA Worldwide, addresses the topic of prison chaplaincy and the need to reclaim space for the divine.
Scientific Truth in the Post-Truth Era
“The belief in the value of scientific truth is a product of certain civilizations and not a fact of nature” (Weber, 1922).
Stress testing Intellectual Humility in the real world
Arrogance is all around us: political polarization, exploitive leaders, societal unrest and injustice, escalating conflict, and burnout in the workplace. Yet, in an increasingly polarized world, where arrogance and certainty seem to reign, some leaders are quietly practicing another approach: intellectual humility.
The relevance of human flourishing to offender rehabilitation
Sung Joon Jang and Byron R. Johnson, both from Baylor University, turn the spotlight on the relevance of human flourishing to offender rehabilitation in Colombia and South Africa.
Bridging the cultural divide in social discourse, Part 5: Practicing intellectual humility in the...
In this fifth and final article in this series, Peter C. Hill discusses bridging the cultural divide in social discourse, mainly practicing intellectual humility in the real world.
France enforces ban on abayas in state schools
France's education minister announced a policy change enforcing ban on abayas, loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by certain Muslim women, within the country's state-run schools.
From the empirical to the causal molecular: Understanding biology and genetics
From empiricist to causal molecular understanding of life and back: Historical reflections on 19th and 21st-century epistemologies in biology
The German American physiologist and experimental biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) was one of the most vigorous promoters of biology as an experimental science in the 19th century. Influenced by the physicist...
Human flourishing and offender rehabilitation
Byron R. Johnson and Sung Joon Jang from the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University explore the correlation between religious involvement and human flourishing for those in offender rehabilitation.
NIJ puts science to work for justice system stakeholders
Nancy La Vigne PhD, Director of the National Institute of Justice, shares perspectives on how the Institute advances justice across the nation and beyond, strengthening the scientific tools and discoveries that support justice system stakeholders.
