Berkley Center

Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., has applied Christian social ethics to some of the most pressing issues over the last 40 years. This profile explores how encounter, a key theme in Jesuit thought and practice, has shaped his timely work on a wide-ranging set of issues, from economic reform and human rights to the refugee crisis.

Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Amy Uelmen describes on Mirror of Justice why religious communities who've temporarily ceased public liturgies to enforce social distancing are displaying loving solidarity, not cowardly capitulation, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development describes a new joint project of the Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, and World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) to collect and communicate information related to religious action responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Berkley Center Senior Fellow and WFDD Executive Director Katherine Marshall is a project leader.

In a Daily Comment for the New Yorker Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie writes about our society's wont to describe this-that-&-the-other trend with the language of "virus" and "epidemic"—and how this may have made it hard us to see actual viruses as the clear and present dangers they are.