The Uncertain Future of Mainline Christianity

Jonathan Merritt, 12.10.2009

Faith and Culture Writer; Author of "Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet"

When American soldiers returned from World War II, the so-called mainline churches were pillars of Protestantism in the United States. (The six denomi...

Imagining a World Where the Bible No Longer Exists

Jonathan Merritt, 12.10.2009

Faith and Culture Writer; Author of "Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet"

Many people believe that we are quickly approaching the day in which the Bible no longer exists...at least in book form. Lisa Miller of Newsweek write...

Legacy Writing For The Holidays

Rachael Freed, 12.10.2009

Author, founder of Life-Legacies

Holiday rituals and traditions connect families over the generations. Communicating our memories and stories can revitalize this year's holidays, and even encourage family healing and forgiveness.

Invictus: Obama's Liberal Warrior Speech in Oslo

Jacob Heilbrunn, 12.10.2009

Author, "They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons"

President Obama's speech today accepting the Nobel Peace Prize confirmed his transformation from dove into liberal warrior. For all his undoubted abilities to win friends and influence people, Obama faced an improbable task today: explaining to Europeans, who have experienced centuries of warfare and want no more of it, why the recipient of the peace prize is going off to war.

Hammering Out a Deal for Our Future

Stephen H. Schneider, 12.09.2009

Professor at Stanford University, Founder of the Climate Project

I am hopeful that we can dispense with this smokescreen soon and get on with the tough business of fashioning an environmentally sound, cost-effective and equitable set of rules to save our planet.

Why Copenhagen's Greatest Legacy Could Be a Stronger China

Alex Pasternack, 12.08.2009

Journalist on China, environment, architecture, technology and culture

Copenhagen isn't just about agreeing on future carbon cuts or aid and technology transfer to developing countries. It's about how countries position themselves to lead the dialog going forward. Now's China's chance to shine.

The Future of Mobile is Local -- Look at Yelp

Jose Antonio Vargas, 12.07.2009

Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post

The future of mobile? Local, local, local -- and that's exactly what the Yelp-Android marriage unequivocally signals.

The Latest from Science Progress

Michael Rugnetta, 12.03.2009

CAP Research Assistant, Penn Grad, Philly Native

I've had a few blog post go up on CAP's Science Progress website this past week.  They chronicle some under-the-radar science news items and aim ...

End the Politics -- Let Scientists and Engineers Lead

Jeffrey Sachs, 12.03.2009

Economist and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University

Here we are, 17 years after the signing of the UN framework convention on climate change, a year after Obama's election, and days away from Copenhagen, still without a global strategy to avoid a climate catastrophe.

The Recession, President Obama and The Future. Do ideas matter?

Alan Miller, 11.13.2009

writer, film maker, and director, The NY Salon.

Recently, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, penned an article bemoaning the greed of bankers and hatred of politicians. Indeed, it has been a wid...

Artist As Citizen: Judge Our Climate Contest

Richard Reiss, 11.23.2009

Over the summer, we set a couple of dozen creative students the task of describing the risk from climate change, as framed in the most recent IPCC and MIT reports.

A List In Response To A News Story: Take my Cats, Please...Seriously. I Want to Freak Out.

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, 11.19.2009

Author

My cats or my future baby?: Barf on the floor; Pee on the floor; Has a brain larger than a handful of grapes; Not freak out when I want to dress it in a cute outfit; Not be covered in hair; Love me back.

Rise of the Republicants

Bruce Tenenbaum, 09.24.2009

Writer, actor and radio host

We, the people of the future, need your urgent assistance. We are writing to you from the rubble of our once promising republic, the United States of America, destroyed by Republicants.

Have We Learned Anything? The Effect of the Recession on the Future American Psyche

Stephen Josephson, 08.15.2009

Clinical Psychologist

It seems as if a subset of people are actually achieving a fundamental shift from acquiring stuff to focusing on family, friends and keeping it simple.

A Child Questions Us from the Future

Jan Phillips, 08.10.2009

artist, author, workshop facilitator

Grandpa, did you know it was happening?

Shattering the Ceilings, for Good

Jacki Zehner, 07.23.2009

Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group, Former Goldman Sachs Partner

Lack of women in finance is but one of many possible problems that led us to this dark place. But it's a problem that can be addressed. So let's move.

It Takes Two Healthy Joyful Whole People to Make One Healthy Joyful Whole Relationship

Margaret Ruth, 07.02.2009

Author, Columnist, Intuition & Psychic Expert, Popular Radio Psychic

The rule is that it takes Two Happy Healthy Whole People to make One Happy Healthy Whole relationship -- and there are No Exceptions to this rule.

Mapping Your Life's Journey

Daniel Lubetzky, 04.30.2009

Your iPhone or Blackberry could have an application that every 5 minutes or every hour or every day could store your GPS location at that particular time.

What Does the Future Look Like?

Julia Moulden, 04.28.2009

New Radical: how we earn our living can become the way we give back.

A group of compassionate human beings met this week to talk not about history, but what's going on right this minute and what the future might just look like.

Tweet From SXSWi '09: "Pessimists Die Quickly" (Gulp)

Sanjay Khanna, 04.27.2009

Climate-change writer and journalist

I believe we need to place trust in one another and create community-based responses to climate change, whole or piecemeal, in the face of constraints that are bound to grow over time.

Q & A: Actor Nicolas Cage Looks Ahead With "Knowing"

Brad Balfour, 04.21.2009

Veteran Interviewer and Pop Culture Chronicler

Said Cage, "I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds."