Organized religion was already in trouble before fall 2008. Denominations were stagnating or shrinking, and congregations across faith groups were fretting about their finances. ...more

October 31, 2009

- Voters in Nashville, Tenn., have rejected a measure requiring government business be done only in English. ...more

January 22, 2009

Two months ago, Mohammad Anwar recalls, the Taliban paraded accused thieves through his village, tarred their faces with oil and threw them in jail. ...more

December 27, 2008

Hawjin Hama Rashid, a feisty journalist in jeans and a frilly blouse, had come to the morgue in this Kurdish city to research tribal killings of women. ...more

December 21, 2008

Bill Fanning says November election will bring a "massive moral and political overhaul." ...more

June 4, 2008

Whether to teach science of evolution or the conjecture of creationism in schools seems to be uppermost in the minds of our school administrators. Both theories have their good points and bad points. Both require some bit of imagination and faith. The findings of fact and development of theories have brought science and religion to very conflicting points of view. ...more

February 7, 2008

When then-Gov. George W. Bush campaigned for the presidency in 2000, he promised a transparent White House and public access to information. ...more

December 28, 2007

Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, raising pressure on the junta by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy. ...more

September 23, 2007