The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
Can a revolution come down to a pill? Over the past century, tidal waves of moral revolution have transformed society and reshaped our moral landscape...
Pope Francis, considered by Roman Catholic dogma to be Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome...
Another mainline Protestant minister has defied church law, blessed a same-sex union, and yet escaped discipline. In this case the denomination is the Presbyterian Church USA and the minister is identified as "a direct descendant of legendary Puritan ...
The British media reported shocking news in recent days as a major bioethics report is to be released, offering guidelines for the medical care of severely disabled infants. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics will release the report later this week, a ...
"The bottom line is that a heavily married society is a whole lot better off than one that's not," says David Popenoe, a professor of sociology at Rutger's University and co-director of the National Marriage Project. Popenoe's statement should be rea ...
William Saletan covers biomedical issues and related controversies at Slate.com -- and his instincts about what is important are very often right on the mark. He got it right recently when he pointed to the emergence of biotechnology issues in the 20 ...
Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori has now assumed office as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA. A former oceanographer, Bishop Schori is the first women to serve as Presiding Bishop. Her election is one of the most divisive developments wit ...
"Can religion stand up to the progress of science?" That is the question posed by TIME magazine in its current cover article, "God vs. Science." The article, written by David Van Biema, looks at the expanding fronts which pit scientific claims agains ...
Administrators at Willett Elementary School in Attleboro, Massachusetts recently banned tag. That's right folks, no more of that dangerous and frightening game in which one kid runs after another. None of that in Attleboro. They have discovered tr ...
Dr. Eugene Merrill, who serves as Distinguished Professor at both Dallas Theological Seminary and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recently published his theology of the Old Testament. Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testame ...
Eyal Press must be a brave man. I say that because he takes American liberals to task for their secularist assumptions -- and he does so in The Nation, America's venerable newsmagazine of the Left. Press begins with a 2004 op-ed written by Garry Will ...
Newsweek declares this week that evangelicals are experiencing an "identity crisis." That's what observers inside and outside the movement have been saying ever since it was organized in the mid-twentieth century -- and they have always been right. ...