The vast revolutions in morality that have reshaped the modern landscape have been spectacularly successful, with very few exceptions. In the last hal...
With Christmas just days away, the Vatican evidently thought it was high time to reverse 2,000 years of Christian tradition and allow priests to bless...
Most of us know we’re living in consequential times, but sometimes it seems we’re living in truly dangerous times. Just over the course of the last fe...
So, what about the new speaker of the House? Is he a kind and gracious man or “a right-wing fever dream come to life,” as one columnist declared? Actu...
Alan Cooperman of The Washington Post reports Wednesday that the federal government will pay for the rebuilding of "parochial schools, nursing homes and similar religious institutions," but not for the rebuilding of church buildings used for worship. ...
Patricia E. Bauer, a former reporter and bureau chief for The Washington Post, warns that prenatal testing techniques have shifted the medical question from an ability to abort babies judged to be defective to a duty to abort. She's right of course, ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans to evict all New Tribes Mission personnel from the South American nation, describing the missionary group as "a true imperialist infiltration that makes me ashamed." According to the BBC: "The New ...
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has vetoed a bill that would have expanded that state's medical conscience clause to allow medical professionals to "opt out" of participating in certain medical procedures such as removing a patient's feeding tube or usi ...
Two possible breakthroughs in human stem cell research were announced Sunday in Nature, one of the world's most respected scientific journals. In "'Ethical' Routes to Stem Cells highlight Political Divide," Erika Check and Carina Dennis report that s ...
The Swedish Academy announced Thursday that the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature had been awarded to British playwright Harold Pinter. The Academy released a statement explaining that "Harold Pinter is generally seen as the foremost representative of B ...
Ronald Aronson offers an interesting review essay in the current issue of BookForum. The topic is atheism and Aronson thinks that "it is irreligion, and not religion, that is on the defensive today." Nearly forty years after TIME's famous cover that ...
Margaret Thatcher turns 80 today, and the world is reminded once again of her courage, strength of character, and statecraft. In London, a large birthday party is planned, and the Queen is expected to attend (an unusual recognition of Lady Thatcher's ...
Architecture critic Witold Rybczynski offers an essay and slide show on modern megachurches at Slate.com. The photography is striking, but Rbyczynski's definition of megachurch has everything to do with the size of the building -- not theology (the n ...
Last week, British newspapers reported that a research study had indicated that children raised by their mothers perform better than those who spend time in daycare or other institutional settings. As The Telegraph [London] reported, Mothers were i ...