One City, the Buddhist blog at Beliefnet, took a provocative but entertaining line on how to draw a wider audience to the benefits of meditation and mindfulness: "Lose the Buddha."Seriously. The poster on this...

Two new reports on the size and strength of American congregations present contrasting pictures of church life today. The October issue of Outreach magazine is all about growth. It lists the 100 largest U.S. c...

In their quest to fortify themselves against the H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, Matsunaga and other schools across the Washington region are building up chemical stockpiles and barraging students with lesson...

Some Chinese schools are removing the Web-filtering software that Chinese authorities ordered installed on all computers this summer, further weakening the influence of a controversial censorship measure tha...

Ads for erectile dysfunction drugs, beer and not-for-children films abound on pro football and baseball telecasts, upsetting parents and politicians worried about harm to young viewers - though a new wave of ...

Americans who don't identify with any religion are now 15 percent of the USA, but trends in a new study shows they could one day surpass the nation's largest denominations — including Catholics, now 2...

Like Muslims worldwide, Ben Ries has refrained from food and drink from sunrise to sundown in an act of self-restraint during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which ends this weekend.Each evening, the 31-ye...

Among the kids, it was known as Rug Burn City, a reference to the injuries they sustained when guards at the Gossett juvenile prison in upstate New York routinely pinned young offenders face down on the carp...

After nearly two decades of soaring growth, evangelical colleges and universities are seeing their fortunes turn downward, and—in a few instances—fall off a cliff. The severely weak economy is hur...

0 0 0 Worried their children might be exposed to too much sugar, R-rated movies, spotty supervision and worse, a growing number of parents are forgoing sleepovers in favor o...