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Katherine Marshall

April 23, 2020

Messages of Religious Leaders Have “Extraordinary Importance”

In an interview with the World Council of Churches, Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall discusses the ways faith communities and religious leaders have been responding to COVID-19, including their important role in addressing inequality revealed by the pandemic.

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April 18, 2020

What Difference Does a Day Make? Earth Day at Fifty

In an article for Emergence on the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Senior Fellow Paul Elie traces the literary history of the environmental movement from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, covering writers like Bill McKibben, Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, and Elizabeth Kolbert.

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April 17, 2020

Religion Can be a Healing Balm for COVID-19's Disruption, If Applied Judiciously

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall, with co-authors Susan Hayward and Azza Karam, argues that religion can be part of the problem and solution in the COVID-19 pandemic. Their op-ed, published by Religion News Service, considers how multireligious solidarity can help address exclusion and fear in the wake of the pandemic.

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Lisé Morjé Howard

March 6, 2026

Faculty Fellow Lise Morjé Howard to Speak on the Future of UN Peacekeeping

Lise Morjé Howard, a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center, will participate in a panel discussion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled “The UN Without the United States: UN Peacekeeping.” The event will explore how shifting global politics and a potential decline in U.S. support could reshape the future of United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Jim Wallis

February 13, 2026

Jim Wallis on Why Black History Is America's History

Writing in Religion News Service, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jim Wallis contends that facing the history of racial injustice in the United States with honesty is not divisive, but necessary for democratic renewal and moral clarity.

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