John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

We're thinking of our students and hoping they find exactly the self-care they need today on their WashU Wellness Day.

Join us tonight at 6 PM CST / 7 PM EST for our newest event! Registration link below.

Center postdoc Andrew Walker-Cornetta will participate in this panel discussion next week. More info at link below.

U.S. efforts to promote religious freedom in the Arab World are contributing to the suppression of American Muslim communities, writes David Warren.

WashU Hillel is organizing an event next week that may be of interest to you! See more:

Orthodox Jewish women are taking to social media to advocate for their rights and divorce reforms. Social media works. Activism works. Pressure works, one feminist activist posted on Instagram.

The poet Amanda Gorman has revised the "city on a hill" for a new era. "We are still climbing that hill," writes Nichole Renée Phillips.

"Interpersonal Relations Across Political Divides" If you missed this conversation with John Danforth, Matt Malone S.J., and Marie Griffith, you can now watch the video on our website at https://rap.wustl.edu//interpersonal-relations-across-pol/.

"In the digital age, therefore, the greatest threat to religious belief might come not from atheism or skepticism but rather from its mischaracterization as jus...t one more form of partisan certainty," writes Eli Gottlieb. "Correspondingly, religion’s greatest contribution at this time might be to resist binary conceptions of belief and to model the humility that comes from keeping faith, and acting with conviction, in the face of doubt."

Join us tomorrow (Thursday, 3/11) for this live discussion with Sen. John Danforth and Fr. Matt Malone, S.J.

"We have enough books about famous rabbis. I wanted this book to be about everyday people and to center women’s experiences. In her new book, Jodi Eichler-Lev...ine writes about Jewish American crafters, and how creative works have helped preserve an ancient culture in a modernoften dangerousworld. See more