Berkley Center

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.

During a March 2 event hosted as part of Danielle Vella’s book tour for the recently released Dying to Live: Stories on the Road to Freedom, panelists shared their insights on the importance of recognizing and respecting the humanity of each individual and his or her unique migratory experience.