by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 30, 2022 | News
Personal and public health increased in importance for one-in-four U.S. adults during the COVID-19 pandemic according to a Pew Research Center report published Aug. 18. The survey presented adults with an open-ended prompt in early May: “Some people say they have...
by Monty Self | Aug 19, 2022 | Opinion
The United States spent $4.1 trillion on health care in 2020, which is around $12,530 per person and 19.7% of the nation’s gross domestic product. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, this only reflects a 9.7% increase over 2019, which is around 4% higher than the average...
by Martin J. Hodson | Jul 22, 2022 | Opinion
The current social and political landscapes of the U.S. and the U.K. have several similarities, as I noted in part one of this series. Here I want to look more specifically at the major issues of our day, again comparing the U.S. and the U.K., beginning with the three...
by Martin J. Hodson | Jul 21, 2022 | Opinion
Norman Wirzba is one of the leading environmental theologians in the U.S. On March 14, 2022, I attended a book launch for Wirzba’s new book, This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World, at the Laudato Si Research Institute at the University of Oxford. We...
by Libby Carroll | Jul 13, 2022 | News
The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to an estimated 828 million in 2021, according to a June 2022 report authored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the United Nations...
