The Uncertain Future of Mainline Christianity
When American soldiers returned from World War II, the so-called mainline churches were pillars of Protestantism in the United States. (The six denomi...
When American soldiers returned from World War II, the so-called mainline churches were pillars of Protestantism in the United States. (The six denomi...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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? Local, local, local -- and that's exactly what the Yelp-Android marriage unequivocally signals.
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Grandpa, did you know it was happening?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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The fight over health care reform has proven just how broken...