It's a spectacular day at Harmony Playground in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, with children swinging and running through sprinklers. An “icy man” with his pushcart of fruit ices stands near the jungle gy...

Onstage before thousands of believers weighed down by debt and economic insecurity, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and their all-star lineup of “prosperity gospel” preachers delighted the crowd wi...

Darlene Dukes struggled to speak as she called 911 from her cellphone. She could barely tell the operator her address: 602 Wales Drive. ...That cellphone call was critical. If Dukes had called from a land-line ...

When her 21-year-old daughter died in a sledding accident in early 2007, Pam Weiss had never logged onto Facebook. Back then, it was used almost exclusively by the young, like her daughter Amy, a student at UCL...

The school year is almost here, and if literature of the Bible is not already offered in your child's school, it will be this fall. Books are a common sight in classrooms around the nation, but the Bible ...

Universal's strategy this summer to bet on three comedies and a period gangster picture rather than follow Hollywood's customary practice of releasing audience-pleasing sequels and "franchise" films has cost th...

Students, teachers and local pastors are protesting over a court case involving a northern Florida school principal and an athletic director who are facing criminal charges and up to six months in jail over the...

The Ohio Council of Churches promised Thursday to fight proposed rules allowing Ohio horse racetracks to operate video slot machines around the clock, with 18-year-olds welcome to play. Tom Smith, public policy...

From Book Donkey Blabs:First off, I am not perfect. No where near perfect. Never claim to be and never will claim to be. What I am writing, I am not sure how I would act/react to the situation. At the rate ou...

Kids won't be the only miserable people during these waning days of summer, when the first day of school lurks like a dour detention officer. The retailers selling students back-to-school clothing, supplies and...