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The Eclipse of the Soul and the Rise of the Ecological Crisis

Spirituality Studies, 2022
For many of our contemporaries, there is no more pressing issue than the acute ecological challenges facing the planet. Environmental degradation has reached a tipping point, but how have we fallen into such a predicament?
Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
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The reformed confessions: embarrassment or blessing to a missionary church?

In die Skriflig, 2007
The historic reformed confessions are sometimes blamed for the apparent lack of missionary zeal among churches of the RCSA, and called an embarrassment to the church.
J. J.Fritz Krüger
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Beauty and Loss: Tolkien\u27s Eucatastrophe as a Mandate for the Church [PDF]

, 2016
In his writings, Tolkien affirms the presence of loss and longing, beauty and despair and analyzes the function they serve in both the secondary world of Middle-earth and the primary world.
Philpott, Mary K
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The role and implications of mammalian cellular circadian entrainment

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
At their most fundamental level, mammalian circadian rhythms occur inside every individual cell. To tell the correct time, cells must align (or ‘entrain’) their circadian rhythm to the external environment. In this review, we highlight how cells entrain to the major circadian cues of light, feeding and temperature, and the implications this has for our
Priya Crosby
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Interplay between circadian and other transcription factors—Implications for cycling transcriptome reprogramming

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This perspective highlights emerging insights into how the circadian transcription factor CLOCK:BMAL1 regulates chromatin architecture, cooperates with other transcription factors, and coordinates enhancer dynamics. We propose an updated framework for how circadian transcription factors operate within dynamic and multifactorial chromatin landscapes ...
Xinyu Y. Nie, Jerome S. Menet
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Disordered but rhythmic—the role of intrinsic protein disorder in eukaryotic circadian timing

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Unstructured domains known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are present in nearly every part of the eukaryotic core circadian oscillator. IDRs enable many diverse inter‐ and intramolecular interactions that support clock function. IDR conformations are highly tunable by post‐translational modifications and environmental conditions, which ...
Emery T. Usher, Jacqueline F. Pelham
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Being Human

Old Testament Essays
In the context of life-denying forces that have deeply scarred (South) Africa, what does it mean to be human? In the book of Psalms, we see a keen acknowledgment of humanity as precious and powerful, created “a little lower than God and crowned… with ...
Juliana Claassens
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In Search of a Boundless Ocean and New Skies

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1996
The stars tremble in their courses over man’s upward march lest this fallen star should become the perfect moon!’ The central question this article addresses is whether human beings can act creatively. I shall first tackle the related question of how God’
Yusuf Waghid
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Wasted GDP in the USA

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Whether or to what extent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can measure human development is disputed. This article develops a notion of “wasted GDP”, with a case study on the performance of the USA based on analysis of Human Development Index (HDI) data ...
Morten Tønnessen
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Ruins of the Future: Decaying Urban Landscapes in Richard Jefferies, J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter’s Speculative Fiction (After London, The Drowned World and The Passion of New Eve)

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2022
‘Tous les hommes ont un attrait secret pour les ruines’ (Chateaubriand 360) : Chateaubriand’s declaration conforms to his contemporaries’ fascination for the rediscovered ruins of Antiquity, but proves to be still relevant in contemporary speculative ...
Quitterie de Beauregard
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