"The Iowa Board of Regents today denied an appeal by Iowa State Professor Guillermo Gonzalez, an intelligent design supporter who has lost a bid for academic tenure."Tenure is essentially a lifetime appointment...

The estimated number of vacation days Americans failed to take in 2007: 438 million. Psychologists, demographers and others say we pass over time off for many reasons – everything from an entrenched Purit...

"God is not an abstraction at Union University. Here, business classes might begin with a prayer. Biology students are encouraged to take creationism as seriously as they do evolution. So what does it say about...

This story argues that the old guard leaders of the Religious Right no longer carry the clout they once did as evidenced by Mike Huckabee's success in spite of their efforts (or lack thereof).So only after Fred...

"This is the Rev. Tim Keller, a Manhattan institution, one of those open urban secrets, like your favorite dim sum place, with a following so ardent and so fast-growing that he has never thought to advertise. H...

This is the first election of the YouTube era, and will.i.am--frontman for the socially conscious rap group Black Eyed Peas, which performed at the Democratic National Convention in Boston four years ago--wante...

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama won a Grammy in this year’s awards in the “Best Spoken Word” Category.Though many may speculate that the award was given for a popular video circul...

Parents who stay close to their grown children have a positive influence well after they've left the nest, but those who overdo it and meddle too much endanger their relationship, several new studies suggest. ...

From the story: "There's more drinkin', dopin' and smokin' in country-music lyrics than you think, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. However, the most frequent refer...

Today is Ash Wednesday, and if the start of the Lenten season leading to Easter seems early this year, there's a reason: The last time Lent arrived this early was 1913."Ash Wednesday already?" said the Rev. Ken...