“True religion invites us to become better people. False religion tells us that this has already occurred.” (Abdal-Hakim Murad)

Today's News and Observer announces the death Monday of the Reverend Will D. Campbell. The article provides a lot of background concerni...

New information in today's on line edition of The Telegraph (UK). Information provided by Mrs. Berdoglio, Francis' sole surviving...

It is by now an old joke. For much of my life, a response to an obvious question (one to which the answer might be: "duh?") would ...

I read this morning that Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation. The Washington Post account mentioned that the last papal resignat...

Kountze, Texas (Hardin County). A group of high school cheerleaders painted Bible verses on large paper "run-through" banners that...

Anyone who has seen the really hilarious and entertaining movie, "Bend It Like Beckham," knows that Sikhs aren't Muslims and t...

Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, remarked a couple of days ago that "I think there's a realizat...

Yet again in a nearby county a group of citizens who proclaim themselves to be Christians are protesting to be allowed to pray at government...

Fifty-two years ago, John F. Kennedy tackled the issue of his religion and confronted leaders of conservative southern baptists who feared h...

V.P. Ferguson was, to say the least, an unconventional student. He arrived at the University of Mississippi from Columbus in the early 19...

My favorite Nobel Laureate in economics, Paul Krugman, is fond of saying, "economics is not a morality play." Late last year, he e...

If we need to know what to do in times of prosperity and times of famine, we could do worse than to consult the Bible. The story of Joseph a...

I was pleased to learn this evening that the Oriental Town Board had decided to postpone the public hearing on the five amendments to the Gr...

I checked at The Bean this morning. No reports of anyone missing in Oriental. Certainly no empty suits have been found. It just occurred to ...

I checked my usual news sources this morning. So far as I can tell, the rapture didn't happen yesterday. So are we back to business as u...

About a month ago, the New York Times reported on a new academic study examining whether in recent years popular music has become more self...

I gather from reading Doonesbury [should that be renamed "Doomsbury?"] that sometime tomorrow the rapture is supposed to happen. I...

In the late 1940's, I attended Star School, a rural grade school about eight or ten miles east of Oklahoma City. In addition to reciting...

Today's Washington Post addresses the history of church and state in America, as one of their "Five Myths" series. Today it wa...