Are We Becoming Less Civilized?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:Taylor Swift isn't just a singer: She's a bonafide phenomenon, and her popularity acros...

In today's look at the rising number of Nones, Americans who claim no religious identity, lead researcher Barry Kosmin likens them to the enlightenment views of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine -- "skeptical...

"Speak the truth to one another;render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace" (Zechariah 8:16). This solid piece of advice from the Old Testament prophet seems like an ethical commonplace...

Here was the question: Several mothers of girls ages 10 to 12 want to know whether they should allow their daughters to buy instrumental versions of two currently popular - though extremely inappropriate - s...

With fall sports in full swing, concussions among student athletes are receiving more media attention than ever. High school athletes sustained 137,000 concussions in the 2007-8 school year, according to a s...

A papermaker dedicated to preserving traditional Western and Japanese techniques; a scientist developing theories of global climate change; and a journalist who helps uncover details of unsolved murders from th...

Is there any human invention more duplicitous than the personal computer? These machines were manufactured and initially marketed as devices to help us at work. We were told they would perform amazing feats ...

The Brooklyn Tabernacle, a 3,500-seat evangelical prayer palace in downtown Brooklyn, was built in 1918 as one of the largest and grandest vaudeville houses in North America. It is still a hot ticket. Its yo...

Facebook isn't just for socializing anymore — a new survey of college admissions officials suggests students are increasingly taking care of business on the site, as well. More than 70 percent of officia...

Ignace Maloba, a Wesleyan pastor in rural Congo, has had an unexpected new ministry as of late: hunting child witches. Four years ago, local informants led him to the dusty back streets of Kolwezi, a copper-...