If you ask people who Saint Patrick was, you’re likely to hear that he was an Irishman who chased the…
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What would happen if the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional — and the president told the Court…
The cover of the latest Newsweek magazine asks the right question: “Who killed Jesus?” This has been a raging debate for a…
Several months ago, a friend came to me outraged over Dan Brown’s thriller, The Da Vinci Code. He read the book,…
Today is the holiday in which we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, and all over the country millions of…
For many, the image of women burned to death for practicing witchcraft is a potent symbol of both Christian intolerance…
One of the most popular movies of 1989 was Dead Poets Society, about a group of classmates in a boys’ school…
Forty years ago, November 22, 1963, a paralyzed world watched the horror of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a dark day…
How do you teach people to love their country — even when it means a great personal sacrifice? That question…
