In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHAEL YEKPLE, a PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida, looks at the potential impact drones can make on the world's battlefields in protecting the vulnerable...

KRISTINA ARRIAGA, a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) from 2016 to 2019, argues for Congress to restore USCIRF to the "apolitical, independent and disruptive agency its architects designed it to be"...

In an article first published in  Sightings , WILLIAM SCHWEIKER, Edward L Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, asks whether the US is experiencing the opposite of a 'Great Awakening'...

US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that despite her moves to impeach President Donald Trump, Pelosi says she doesn't hate him but instead says her Catholic faith teaches her to pray for him even if they disagree...

In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academics MICHAEL PRICE and VICTOR HARLOW look at why the "historic institution" of almshouses are re-emerging in the UK...

In an article first published on The Conversation, DAVID ROTHERY, professor of planetary geosciences at The Open University, looks at what mapping has revealed about Saturn moon, Titan...

Following the release of a new children's book asking - and answering - some key questions about the Christmas story, Rev Melissa Lipsett, chief operating officer of the Bible Society Australia Group, looks at the importance of reading the Bible with your children...

In an article first published on The Conversation, KEVIN O'NEAL COKLEY, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin, looks at the connections between the death penalty and issues like race and gender in the US... 

In an article first published on The Conversation, RAMAZAN KILINC, of the University of Nebraska Omaha, looks at the history of Christians in Turkey...

Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER says limiting our use of social media could make for a rewarding Christmas gift...

In an article first published on The Conversation, TUTKU AYHAN and GUNES MURAT TEZCUR, of the University of Central Florida, look at what their research shows about how life has changed for the Yazidi of Iraq in the wake of Islamic State attacks...

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