Berkley Center

Writing for Truthout, Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser examines how disability culture can help lead to the way for responding more ethically and equitably to the climate crisis.

Senior Research Fellow Judd Birdsall has written the afterword for The Gospel and Religious Freedom: Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement (Baylor University Press, 2023), edited by David W. Bebbington.

Writing for La Civiltà Cattolica, Senior Fellow Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., discusses the ethical, political, and theological dimensions of the debate in the Catholic community about whether Christians should always rely on nonviolent responses to serious injustices or whether armed force is sometimes a legitimate way to right grave wrongs.

Writing a review essay for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie discusses The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (2023). This new book by Rachel L. Swarns chronicles Georgetown University's participation in enslavement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the recent efforts to uncover and reckon with that history.