A 2007 survey conducted by the American Association of Retired Persons suggests that a majority of people 50 years old and older believe in life after death.

Of the people surveyed, 94 percent claimed to believe in God, while 87 percent considered themselves "spiritual" and 82 percent acknowledged being "religious." Over half—66 percent—agreed that their "confidence in life after death ...

In the 2006 book Unprotected, an anonymous campus psychiatrist writes:

Radical politics pervades my profession, and common sense has vanished. Dangerous behaviors are a personal choice; judgments are prohibited—they might offend…

Where I work, we're stuck on certain issues, but neglect others. We ask about childhood abuse, but not last week's hookups. We want to know how many cigarettes ...

Camp Quest West, just north of Sacramento, California, is no church camp. Designed for children of agnostics, atheists, freethinkers, and humanists, the mission of the camp is to "promote respect for others with different viewpoints, values, and beliefs." It goes one step further to say, "we deplore efforts … to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms and to look outside nature for ...

Author and law professor Stephen Carter writes:

My date book contains cartoons first published in The New Yorker. One shows a young boy in front of his class, doing arithmetic at the blackboard. He has just written "7 x 5 = 75" and says to his astonished teacher, "It may be wrong, but it's how I feel."

There, in a nutshell, is the problem with the post-secular university. Faith is dead, reason is dying, ...

In Changing Lanes Ben Affleck plays a young Wall Street lawyer named Gavin Bannock. The movie begins with Gavin speeding to the courthouse to file papers giving his firm power to control the assets of the deceased Mr. Dunn's charitable foundation. Unconvinced of the legitimacy of his firm's case, he repeatedly tells himself, "I did absolutely nothing wrong." On his way to court, he gets ...

The Internet search engine Yahoo! compiled a top 10 list of the words Web searchers want to define:

1. Veracity

2. Love

3. Pulchritudinous

4. Culture

5. Literature

6. Research

7. Ethics

8. Plagiarism

9. Communication

10. Leadership

Yahoo! concluded the report noting that "many of us are still trying to find meaning for some of life's littlest big words."

Perhaps this report also reveals that truth and love still ...

What does Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, have to say about absolute truths?

First, there is an interchange between Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who has allied himself with the evil Sith:

Anakin: “If you're not with me, you're my enemy.”

Obi-wan: “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”

Later, though, Obi-Wan himself deals in an absolute, as he attempts to ...

In the early days of aviation, planes were not yet equipped with gyroscopic turn indicators. When pilots flew through clouds or fog, they would often become disoriented, and because the inner ear does not accurately perceive a banked turn, they sometimes got caught in steep spiral dives called "graveyard spirals."

Pilot and author William Langewiesche describes one such incident:

In December of 1925 ...

In Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer tells of his harrowing experience climbing Mt. Everest. On May 10, 1996, Krakauer made it to the top. He paused only for a few minutes before heading down, his muscles exhausted, his limbs frozen, and his brain oxygen-deprived. As he descended, some clouds drifted up and enveloped him. Soon, thunder, lightning, and a snow storm threatened to disorient him, but he was ...

"After 500 years the Columbian legacy has created a civilization that we ought not, in all humble piety and cultural relativism, declare to be no better or worse than that of the Incas. It turned out better. And mankind is the better for it. Infinitely better. Reason enough to honor Columbus and bless 1492."