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For several months Congress had been calling for President Bush to coordinate the work of security-oriented agencies spread throughout the executive branch....

The wet spring in many parts of the country, including ours, produced mosquito-nurturing ponds. Now the mosquitoes are here....

Water will determine the future of the Occupied Territories, and by extension, the issue of conflict or peace in the region.” Thomas Naff made this remark several years ago, and water remains...

My ultimate compliment to a book is that it made me forget I had a review to write and convinced me to read it for pure pleasure. And more: that I need what the author has to say....

Rise and be prepared to move on and ever on," is the continuing theme of Maya Angelou's autobiographical cycle, and the phrase succinctly sums up the story of her life....

Where is God? This pro­vocative question rings in the ears of all those who energetically engage God and God's promises in the world....

Preaching at St....

The films John Woo made in Hong Kong were perfectly matched to the interests of young American audiences, filled with blazing guns, macho posturing and bloody climaxes....

Grimly purposeful, with barely a shadow of humor, Insomnia is one of those post-Seven thrillers that's so puffed up with its own importance that it doesn't feel it has to bother t...

In an 1893 essay on Darwin's The Origin of Species T. H....

Two recent books reflect contrasting approaches to the study of the Holocaust....

In his book Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games, A....

When Kentucky was considering a ban on all cloning of human embryos this year, the debate struck close to home for legislator Jim Reynolds....

Analysts of industrial nations often are perplexed by the continuing high level of religious activity in the United States....

The U.S. war against terrorism since September 11 has obscured a longstanding yet growing set of dysfunctional relationships between this nation and most other nations. The U.S....

Wendell Berry has lived as a farmer and writer in Kentucky for a quarter century. In his fiction, essays and poetry, he often meditates on the human relation to the earth....

Dearly beloved: Recent surveys report that adults in their 20s have high hopes for themselves and marriage, but a low appraisal of marriage in general. ...

Though some Catholic leaders blame homosexual priests for much of their church’s sexual-abuse problems, the predominantly gay Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches has had no sexu...

In my youth I thought: God asked what of Abraham? Is this the God who I am supposed to worship?

A mother and child wander in the unknown—that place where fears overtake us.