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The white-hot glare of world attention may no longer be on the Indian Ocean region affected by the December 26 tsunami. But the needs are st...

One of the unintended consequences of the 22nd. amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1951 and limiting Presidents to being elected to ju...

Lots of retired guys take jobs at Wal-Mart, where you might find them greeting customers. The pay isn't that great, but it's somethi...

The lead story in today's Cincinnati Enquirer , written by staffers Carl Weiser and Howard Wilkinson, dealt with the President's Ina...

Like you, I wrestle with just how horrific the tsunami of December 26 was. I don't have any glib explanations. But I have wrestled with ...

Rob Asghar has a great blog . I go there every day! I hope that you will go there too.

Most Inaugural Addresses are forgotten and eminently forgettable. Only time will tell if President Bush's second address is long-remembe...

Although there is a lot more that could and should be said about the subject of prayer, I've decided to put the series, Prayer: The Esse...

James Lileks can be vulgar, insightful, irreverent, and funny. I find my attention turned to him from time to time, in the same way I find ...

[I write these Q-and-A columns for a local chain of suburban newspapers and for our congregation's newsletter. They're based on real...

Why did Rolling Stone magazine decide, at the last moment, to not run an advertisement for a new translation of the Bible? One can only gu...

With today's Inaugural ceremonies, President Bush will take the oath of office for a second term as President. As he does so, he and the...

The death toll related to the tsunami of December 26 continues to rise. Relief efforts will be needed there for some time to come. Please co...

Punch the Bag, anonymous contributor to the enjoyable, In the Agora , has provoked an interesting conversation-by-comments today . Frankl...

I've given my response to the study , where I hope you'll also find a fair overview of the entire matter. Here is a completely diffe...

Ray Grieselhuber's blog, Sacking Rome , is on my frequent-visit list. He's just returned from a trip to Mexico, where he helped buil...

In the weeks following the November 2 election, John Kerry impressed me with the class and magnanimity with which he accepted his defeat. He...

You hear it or variations of it all the time. "We pray these things in Jesus' Name," people say. Why exactly do people pray in...

As is true of most of my baseball fan-friends, this poll indicates that a large majority of them across the US, are skeptical about the spo...

Elvis scores a #1 in the UK, twenty-seven years after he died ...or went to work at a Burger King in Ann Arbor.