Poll: What Is Your Current Religion?

A 2005 poll, conducted by Newsweek and Beliefnet, asked: "What is your current religion?"

Evangelical Protestant—33 percent Non-Evangelical Protestant—25 ...

Influential Scientist Believes World Is an Idiot's Tale

Scientist and skeptic Richard Dawkins, in his book River Out of Eden, explains: "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect ...

Why Christians Needn't Keep Moral Views to Themselves

Writing in U.S. News & World Report, John Leo had this to say in defense of voting based upon religious values:

I am struggling to understand the "don't ...

"Joe vs. the Volcano": Living in Amazement

"My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are ...

Sean Penn Connects Mystery with Truth

When everything gets answered, it's fake—the mystery is the truth.

—Actor Sean Penn

Success Gave Executive a Hollow Feeling

A N. Y. Times article on people who are sick of too many hours at work tells the story of Diane Knorr, a former dot-com executive:

"The first time ...

Einstein Found the World Comprehensible

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

—Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate ...

Dexter Manley Had Nothing but Football

He played in three Super Bowls, winning twice. Known as "The Secretary of Defense," the six-foot-three, 260-pound NFL defensive end compiled ...

Prayer Is Rebellion

"What then is the nature of petitionary prayer? It is, in essence, rebellion—, rebellion against the world in its falleness, the absolute and undying ...

Americans Live in Isolation

Novelist Jonathan Franzen writes about our increasing isolation:

In 1890, an American typically lived in a small town… Not only did his every purchase ...