"Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives," by David Eagleman (Pantheon, $20) ...more

March 15, 2009

William D. Eddy was an Episcopal minister in Tarrytown, N.Y., and an admirer of the writer and theologian Richard John Neuhaus. When Eddy grew gravely ill about 20 years ago, I asked Neuhaus to write him a letter of comfort. ...more

January 16, 2009

The image is seared into the culture of Christmas like stockings hanging from the mantel piece or boughs of holly stretched along staircases. ...more

November 22, 2008

Spring Hill resident Anita Koper thought she'd heard it all - until last week, when her 12-year-old daughter came home from school at Explorer K-8 and started asking her about "revolution." ...more

September 30, 2008

A warning to readers who are contemplating getting naked and unruly: You could be Tasered. ...more

September 21, 2008

An Italian priest backtracked from his idea to organize an online beauty pageant for nuns, saying Tuesday that he had been misunderstood and incurred the protests of the faithful and local religious authorities. ...more

August 27, 2008

Hundreds of mourners, many sobbing, gathered Monday at Athens' cathedral to file past the remains of Archbishop Christodoulos, the first leader of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church to welcome a Catholic pope to Athens in 1,300 years. ...more

January 29, 2008

This references Dean Johnson's Dec. 6 letter and Billy Raymond's Dec. 15 letter, subject "I agree." Apparently both of these gentlemen are convinced that it does not matter whatever mankind does here on earth, it will not affect the climate or result in global warming, because "God controls the world's temperature, not man. God controls the climate, the earth's ecosystem, and our environment." So, I guess we do not have to be concerned about excess vehicle emissions and smog affecting the climate or ecosystem. We can dump our batteries, paints, acids, oils, nuclear waste, etc. into our landfills, because "God controls our ecosystem, not man." In view of the above covenants stated by the two writers, if the recent California fires, which destroyed thousands of acres, was caused by arson and there is any resulting ecosystem damage, we cannot hold the arsonist responsible, we must hold God accountable. It should be noted that Mr. Johnson has previously stated he believes that "global warming is the biggest hoax." ...more

December 21, 2007