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In a medium-long article about the delayed but still arriving " Arab Spring ," Abe Greenwald notes, [T]he Vatican has confirmed th...

Photos copyright 2007 by the author; may not be used or hotlinked without permission. The first photo is of the Gethsemane Church on the Mo...

If you spend as little as $5 per day for the benefit of others, you will automatically be happier . "We wanted to test our theory that ...

Once upon a time in a jungle village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers se...

Sederot (sometimes spelled Sderot) is an Israeli town in the country's south, only one kilometer from Gaza. On Feb. 27, a college studen...

Florida education officials show they are uninformed about what "theory" means in science. " Florida will teach evolution but...

A long essay by Edward T. Oakes, " Atheism and Violence ," discusses and refutes the recent books of Richard Dawkins, Chris Hitche...

The most successful satire strikes so close to believability that the reader/listener/viewer can't actually know it is satire unless to...

WWJD? Not this. When visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem, especially at Christmastime, is it best to: A. Kneel worship...

Behold, the Segway of the Sky . It works like the ground Segway - you lean (but not too far!) in the direction you want to go and the stand-...

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing." Battered pilot Bob Robertson waits in shock for rescuers to cut him free ...

A Bible scholar she ain't: Here is what Malachi 1:3 says in its entirety : "but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a d...

Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt of the Hoover Institution has a fascinating essay about the relationship between family size and religion, " Ho...

I've just returned from three days of the Bishop's Convocation of the Tennessee and Memphis Conferences of the United Methodist Chur...

In the century and a half since, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," was composed, it has come into widespread use by both Britain...

The man I am sitting with in the photo below, taken in Jericho last Saturday, is Bassem Eid, the founder and manager of the  Palestinian Hum...

I was born and raised in Nashville, Tenn., where I graduated from Hillsboro High School. I earned my BA degree in philosophy from Wake Fores...

 With the demographics of ethnic Europeans apparently at the cusp of an irreversible death spiral because 17 countries of the continent have...

Once in awhile it's fun to do some thought experimentation. I mentioned a few days ago that I was mulling over the similarities between ...