Another thing each Christmas season brings is a report about the state of life and tourism in Bethlehem, a few miles from Jerusalem. (The new version of the Christmas carol, by the way, is, "O Little ...

Yesterday here on the blog, I wrote about an essay written a few decades back by a man who today teaches at Duke Divinity School, which, of course, is part of Duke University in Durham, N.C. What I ...

You'll have to excuse me today as I spend just this one posting on kind of an internal debate within my denomination, the Presbyterian Church (USA). Listen in if you like. Or just come back tomorrow.

Some folks in Germany have, without knowing it, implemented an idea I've had and talked about among friends for years. They've created a television station devoted to the subject of death. It's called ...

IVY LEAGUE MEETS THE MORMONS Maybe it's something of a post-Romney effect, but whatever the cause, Harvard University is going to offer a course on Mormonism. The religion is attracting more religious ...

The other day here I wrote about the Center for Practical Bioethics celebrating its 25th anniversary. Former Sen. John C. Danforth (pictured here) spoke at the celebratory dinner, and I want to pass ...

The recent trial, conviction and sentencing of the man who murdered 11 worshipers and wounded six more at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has, once again, put the spotlight on resurgent antisemitism in ...

In the Fourth of July blog post to which I linked you above, you'll find a link to the U.N. report written about Gitmo after the Biden administration (to its limited credit) gave a U.N. representative ...