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Global Plus: Balancing Clergy Narcissism with Healthy Humility
A new wave of research on religious leadership is finding that significant numbers of clergy show evidence of struggling with clinical signs of narcissism. The troubling…
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Global Plus: An Active Faith May Hold the Key to a Longer, Healthier Life
Two of the IARJ's top journalists report on a wide range of research that suggests active involvement in religion promotes health and well being. They…
Global Plus: End to American exceptionalism? Researchers find U.S. is part of Western drift toward secularism
Many researchers were startled by new reports that the Western trend toward secularism is also crossing the U.S., generation by…
GlobalPlus: Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand on Anti-Semitism Today
In Part 1 of a Global:Plus report on anti-Semitism, Rachel Kohn looks at a dangerous rise in this centuries-old hatred across Australia and New Zealand. She also…
GlobalPlus: Anti-Semitism in the Americas
In Part 2 of a Global:Plus report on anti-Semitism, Pedro Brieger looks at the rise in the Americas. He writes, "To combat anti-Semitism, we must both recognize its historical roots and the various…
Global Plus: My Freedoms Are Your Freedoms! The price of religious freedom denied.
This is a perilous period for religious freedom throughout the world. Most large countries officially proclaim religious freedom—but a growing body of…
Global Plus: Can the Catholic Church Change? Pope Francis and the long, winding road to revitalizing a troubled…
This latest Global Plus column comes from the journalist with the closest, ongoing access to Pope Francis: Sergio Rubin…
Global Plus: Knowing your neighbor’s faith is path toward peace and understanding
IARJ's Co-Managing Director Larbi Megari—who was also named the IARJ's representative for North Africa and Middle East in 2018—reports in the Global…
Global Plus—Baring souls: How modest fashion is upending anti-Islamic bias and empowering woman of all faiths
Reina Lewis examines changing styles and expectations about Muslim women's fashions. Reina is Artscom Centenary Professor of…
Global Plus: Breaking barriers, increasing understanding, one joke at a time
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, a researcher in sociology of religion in London, writes about the many connections between humor and religion. All of us feel…