--- title: Elaine Howard Ecklund | TIME description: Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey chair in Social Science at Rice University, director of the Religion and Public Life Program, and the author of Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values that Move Us Beyond Fear canonical: https://time.com/author/elaine-howard-ecklund/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/elaine-howard-ecklund/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Elaine Howard Ecklund ## Elaine Howard Ecklund _Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey chair in Social Science at Rice University, director of the Religion and Public Life Program, and the author of_ [Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values that Move Us Beyond Fear](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1587434369/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1587434369&linkId=be71c6313ca1fc75d26b64b0866a7d4b) ## Elaine Howard Ecklund *  Mar 21, 2020 ### [Faith Leaders Should Inform About Coronavirus](https://time.com/5807372/coronavirus-religion-science/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/elaine-howard-ecklund/","name":"Elaine Howard Ecklund"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/elaine-howard-ecklund/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/elaine-howard-ecklund/"},"name":"Elaine Howard Ecklund","jobTitle":null,"description":"Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey chair in Social Science at Rice University, director of the Religion and Public Life Program, and the author of Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: Eight Shared Values that Move Us Beyond Fear","url":"https://time.com/author/elaine-howard-ecklund/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```