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• 📉Social Hostility Towards Religion Declined in 2019, According to Recent Research

  A Decline in Terrorism Led the Reduction, while Government Hostility Remained Steady

• 🔬Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.

  University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology.

• 🌌Paul Davies on ‘What’s Eating the Universe?’

  Paul Davies explores the universe's deepest mysteries, from the origins of the cosmos to the possibility of time travel, in his latest thought-provoking book.

• 🔭Early-Career Astrophysicists and Social Scientists Will Have a Front-Row Seat for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Groundbreaking Night Sky Survey

  Early-career scientists gain unprecedented access to the stars with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s groundbreaking sky survey.

• 🕰️Quantum biology and the arrow of time

  Jellyfish and migratory birds may help physicists understand the mysterious shift from quantum to classical mechanics

• 🧩India’s Patchwork Pluralism

  A groundbreaking nationwide survey explores what Indians believe about their own and their fellow citizens’ religious faiths

• 🔬A Massive New Grant Will Explore the Health Effects of Religion and Spirituality

  For 30 Years This Gold-Standard Study Has Generated Insights on Human Health

• 🌍How Five Leaders Are Pursuing Business for the Greater Good

  An Inspiring Glimpse into the Heart of Conscious Capitalism

• 🔭How Scientists Showed Us the Unseeable

  Pulling Back the Curtain on a Black Hole Breakthrough

• 🤔One Million Years Ago, How Did Humans Think?

  Fossil digs and fMRIs offer new insights into the ways early humans lived and thought, more than a million years ago.

• 🌍$2.9 Million to Globalize the Philosophy of Religion

  Amplifying new voices and uncovering important scholarship beyond the Christian and Anglophone worlds

• 🌱Tackling Philadelphia’s Poverty by Aiding Entrepreneurs of Color

  New program to connect dozens of new businesses with capital and resources while building best practices for further growth

• 🔗Writers and Intellectuals Under Threat

  A New Toolkit for Activists Fighting to Document Repression and Protect Free Expression

• 🀄Cross-Training to Understand Confucian Culture

  A multidisciplinary investigation of ‘How China Became Chinese.’

• 🌟Hope and Optimism - The White Paper

  A new report explores the benefits of two related virtues.

• 🌐How to Develop a Belief Network

  Studying the development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior.

• 📊Religion Data, Remixed

  Retooling a Key Resource for Research on Religion

• 🎓Promoting Intellectual Humility in Classrooms

  A new project will help gauge how students feel realizing the limits of their understanding — and ways they can positively respond

• 🔍The Honesty Project

  A new three-year project to investigate the science and philosophy of an understudied virtue.

• 🔬Expanding Views of Cancer's Causes

  A blood test for early-stage cancer holds promise for treating the many cancers caused by the accumulated “bad luck” of multicellular living

• 🕊️Act Like a Holy Man

  A new film will celebrate the lives, friendship and insights of two of our time’s most revered spiritual leaders - Desmond Tutu and the 14th Dalai Lama

• 🕌Advancing the Study of Theology for Emerging Muslim Leaders

  Scholars Are Building a New Academic Program Encompassing Advanced Islamic Theology and Contemporary Thought

• 🎗️The Everything Happens Project

  Fostering new and needed conversations about tragedy, hope, and beauty

• 🔍collaborative-inquiries-in-christian-theological-anthropology

  A new project will foster interdisciplinary work — informed by both science and theology — on what it means to be human

• 🎓Building Virtues through College Admissions

  Explore how Harvard's initiative reshapes college admissions by prioritizing ethical character and creating tailored tools for assessing student virtues.

• 🧠Unfolding Quantum Intuition

  Citizen scientists are using gameplay to help scientists understand more about what makes us uniquely human.

• 🎓Five Questions with Jason Marsh

  Jason Marsh of GGSC explores emotional well-being strategies during COVID-19 in a lively Q&A session. Discover how virtues can navigate personal and collective crises.

• 🏡Character, Virtue, Quarantine

  Explore how virtues like gratitude and cooperation shape our resilience in the face of pandemic disruptions, guided by new research from the John Templeton Foundation.

• 🧠Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing

  Gratitude, humility, forgiveness, and other positive qualities may have a lot to offer in both psychological research and clinical practice.

• 🌌Space and Time After Quantum Gravity

  String theory, quantum loop gravity, and the philosophy of describing the indescribable

• 🌍Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World

  Want to find out the prevalence of atheism? Maybe don’t ask.

• 🍎Greater Good in Education

  New website gives educators research-based practices for kinder, happier schools

• 👪The Center for Parent and Teen Communication

  Aided by loving, balanced parenting, adolescence is much more than something to be gotten through

• 📚Bringing the EES to the Classroom

  There’s more to inheritance than genes, and more to adaptation than selection

• 🧠Training Faculty to Tackle the Big Questions of Today and Tomorrow

  A new round of fellowships will equip tenured philosophers and theologians to dive deeply into the empirical sciences

• 🔭Extending Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative

  New funding for groundbreaking collaboration to continue investigating some of the biggest questions in physics and cosmology

• 🤝The Development of Forgiveness

  Studies shed light on how preschoolers recognize remorse in others and learn to forgive

• 📚A Browsable, Theological Treasure-Chest

  The new St. Andrews Encyclopædia of Theology hopes to make complex theological topics accessible for people of all backgrounds

• 🧠SelfBound - The Making of Human Consciousness

  How making makes us who we are

• 🔬Five Questions with Betül Kaçar

  Join Betül Kaçar as she explores the frontier of astrobiology and ancient DNA, shedding light on life’s cosmic journey and evolutionary constraints.

• 🙏Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa

  Across the continent, scholars are offering fresh insights into the dynamic role of religion in the lives of Africans

• 📈Creating jobs and alleviating poverty through business support in Indonesia

  Helping entrepreneurs grow their enterprises as part of a flourishing business community

• 🙏Certain Religious Beliefs May Foster Resilience in the Face of Economic Adversity

  Tilting a game’s odds in someone’s favor may increase their karmic beliefs

• 🧠The Neuroscience of Self-Determination

  An ambitious new project aims to expand the scientific understanding of human autonomy

• 📚Theology and Science in Christianity and Islam

  How do you get 10,000 books into the hands of students and scholars in dozens of countries? Logistics, logistics, logistics.

• 🌌Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life

  Minerals may offer a key to understanding how common life is in the universe

• 📜Rediscovering the Greek Revolution’s Roots in Classical Liberalism

  Explore the classical liberal roots of the Greek Revolution as KEFiM illuminates the ideals that shaped modern Greece through a dynamic bicentennial campaign.

• 🔭An Evening Exploring the Unknown

  Astrophysics, Anthropology, and Journalism in Conversation at the Atlantic Festival

• 🔌The Power of Unplugging

  Encouraging people to spend one day a week screen-free

• 🌌Exploring the Big Questions with Aeon

  A new two-year project will fund dozens of essays and longform pieces published in one of the most innovative and engaging journals of science and thought.