Religion, Journalism, and Democracy: Strengthening Vital Institutions of Civil Society

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Alexander Aviña

• How American Bipartisan Political Consensus on US-Mexico Border Policy Kills Migrants, via Expansión CNN‏, FEB. 2019
  • NOTE:  English translation available here; originally published in Spanish via Expansión CNN as "OPINIÓN: La verdadera crisis fronteriza no es la que Trump siempre menciona"

Jason Bruner

• How Christian missionary media shaped the world, via The Conversation, NOV. 2018
• "Blessed are those who have not seen": Image and belief in Jonas Bendiksen’s The Last Testament, via The Revealer, DEC. 2018

John Carlson

• Losing Our Civil Religion, via Religion and Politics, SEP. 2017
• Donald Trump and the battering of civil religion, via Religion News Service, JAN. 2018
• Are we a nation under God or under Trump? It's up to us to choose, via Arizona Capitol Times, FEB. 2018
• Some Worry US Emphasis on ISIS Weakens Overall Anti-Terrorism Policy, via KJZZ, MAR. 2017

Kristin Gilger

• What can Catholic moms do if they want their children to remain Catholic? Let go., via America: The Jesuit Review, MAY 2018
• How can parents keep their children in the faith?, via America: The Jesuit Review, MAY 2018

Anand Gopal

• Some Worry US Emphasis on ISIS Weakens Overall Anti-Terrorism Policy, via KJZZ, MAR. 2017
• New York Times Report Focuses On Civilian Casualties In Syria and U.S. Accountability, via KJZZ, APR. 2018
• The Uncounted, via The New York Times Magazine, NOV. 2017
• Syria's Last Bastion of Freedom, via The New Yorker, DEC. 2018

Syed Ali Hussain

• Ancient Islamic scholars warned against fake news, via Arizona Capitol Times, APR. 2019

Tracy Fessenden

• New book explores how religion shaped Billie Holiday's music, via Arizona PBS, MAY 2018
• Sex and secularism after Trump, via The Immanent Frame, JUN. 2018
• Where Did The Holiday Ghost Story Tradition Come From?, via KJZZ, DEC. 2018
• A Roundtable Conversation – “Religion ‘around’ Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday and Ralph Ellison”, via Jerry Jazz Musician, JAN 2019

Catherine O'Donnell

• Remembering American saint Elizabeth Seton’s legacy and how it continues to inspire work with immigrants, via The Conversation, JAN. 2019
• Elizabeth Seton and Catholics in Early America, via The Road to Now, MAR. 2019
• Why America's First Saint Stopped Trying to Convert Her Neighbors to Catholicism, via Zocalo Public Square, JUL. 2019

Fernanda Santos

• Reframing Refugee Children's Stories, via The New York Times, JAN. 2019
• "The Best Kind of People": Shifting Definitions of Citizenship and the Making of Arizona, via Guernica, FEB. 2019
• I Felt Safe in America. Until El Paso., via The New York Times, AUG. 2019

Carolyn Warner

• Want to end child sex abuse in the church, Pope Francis? Change Canon Law, via Newsweek, OCT. 2018
• How canon law hingers ending abuse by priests, via The Christian Century, AUG. 2018
• Why it's so hard to hold priests accountable for sex abuse, via The Conversation, AUG. 2018