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 ...

The list of books about people who have become fed up with churches that identify as evangelical or theologically conservative is long and growing. And it's part of the reason that the whole breadth ...

July 30, 2025 Almost 24 years after the 9/11 terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 people, including one of my nephews, those of us who lost family members still have not received either justice or a clear ...

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.

In some ways, the worst of human history is a series of stories of revenge, perhaps beginning with Cain, son of Adam and Eve, murdering his brother Abel -- if, that is, you believe that's literal ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the first things Donald Trump did on the first day of his second term as president was to sign a foolish, no-gray executive order saying that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, ...

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 ...

As journalist Anne Applebaum writes in this story in the current issue of The Atlantic about the ongoing war in Sudan: "Statistics are sometimes used to express the scale of the destruction in Sudan.

What I want to say about the recent death of my first wife, Marcia Albright, has only a little to do with our almost-27-year ...