Today’s society has been effected by the expansion of telework, it brought changes on how families interacted and communities were involved, plus modifying traditional job arrangements. Remote work is becoming a cornerstone of the international workforce, bolstered by the new patterns byCOVID-19 and enabled per digital technologies.

The burgeoning use of social media has transformed political communication around the globe and raised serious concerns about how it shapes political polarization. Political polarization is characterized by an intellectual divide and affective enmity between rival political factions, phenomena that are highly problematic for democratic governance, social solidarity, and civil conversation.

Interfaith dialogue has become an increasingly important means to achieve such grass roots connections in a globalizing and digitally mediated world. Traditional interfaith initiatives often relied primarily on meeting face to face, limiting participation to people who lived within certain social and geographic boundaries. But modern technology has revolutionized interfaith participation, introducing new means of collaboration, communication, and cross-cultural understanding.

The global climate catastrophe is in essence a moral and ethical issue that requires a moral solution; it’s not just an environmental or scientific problem. Even though the world's poorest and most marginalized are least responsible for causing environmental degradation, they're affected first and worse by climate change. On this score religious traditions hold much promise for having a large impact in the struggle for climate justice.

Higher education is instrumental in helping future leaders and practitioners understand and address sustainability in a post-climate-crisis world. One of the key skills if must be embedded into university educational programs across disciplines is a climate science literacy, an in-depth understanding of the climate science and implications to society as well as potentially mitigations and adaptations.