There is no agreement in the church today about what happens to people when they die. Yet the New Testament is crystal clear on the matter: In a classic passage, Paul speaks of "the redemption of our bodies" (R...

A state appeals court has agreed to reconsider its decision last month that barred homeschooling by parents who lack teaching credentials, raising the possibility that the judges will change a decision that has...

Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV. But the sport often derided as "human cockfighting" is branching out.The bare-knuck...

The biggest experiment in particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider, starts this summer in Switzerland. The goal is to find signs of an elusive particle called the Higgs boson—also known as the "God pa...

Around the kids, they're nothing if not supportive. But a growing number of baby boomer parents are freaking out inside.They don't want to let on to their adult children that they're getting worried, but these ...

Hear sound bites from Senator Barack Obama' speech about America's racial divisions and the controversy surrounding his former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and listen to what prominent African-American religious lea...

Like dozens of other Pakistani-American girls here, Hajra Bibi stopped attending the local public school when she reached puberty, and began studying at home.Her family wanted her to clean and cook for her male...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Religion Publishers has launched two new Web tools for Catholic education. Call to Faith eConnect is a subscription Web tool for planning and implementation of catechesi...

In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes – the first step to having snippets of their DNA analyzed by 23andMe, a personalized gene...

The ladies of Cactus Cuties range in age from 8 to 13. ...