You have to love a guy who can laugh at himself. You can be sure he likes people and above all enjoys life. Now imagine that someone is a...

No one would ever accuse Ben Jonson of modesty—or tact. He took life by the horns, consequences be damned. A bricklayer’s son, he rose to...

Could it be? William Shakespeare—the world’s greatest playwright—was better known in his day as one of the great actors of the London...

The one disciple who understood Jesus’s message with the greatest clarity was John, “The Beloved Disciple.” This is the very John who...

Who was Jesus? All Christian faiths look to him as their Lord and Savior. In the first century, he was given the title of Messiah, which...

I first learned how to pray—and the value of humility—in Christian Science Sunday School. Once, when I was seven or eight years old, I...

The Bible was the book most quoted at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Indeed, the very ideals that exalted the Declaration of...

It was not a good time to be a prophet in Judea. The tiny nation-state had been occupied for the past 300 years, and the latest occupiers...

Frederick Douglass was a man of many parts.  Born into slavery, he rose from bondage and forced labor, to become a self-educated man, a...

It was threatening to become an international incident.  The United States had the Crown of St. Stephen locked up in the vault at Fort...

The first time Arshay Cooper laid his eyes on one of the "long, thin, snazzy white boats" of crew racing was in the gym at Manley Career...

If you belong to any one of a number of the protestant religions, you owe a debt of gratitude to Martin Luther. It was he who launched...

DAY ONE -- My wife Cindy has her office in Lower Manhattan, or in Downtown (as the locals have it). It's where the financial district is...

It was getting near Christmastime, and the communist regime that had held Czechoslovakia in its iron grip for 40 years was letting go. ...

It’s been called the “Pearl of the Adriatic,” “Venice Without Canals,” and “Heaven on Earth.” Pronounced DU-brov-nick, it's the most...

It took a year-and-a-half of waiting in anterooms, of personal humiliations, of lobbying the government for official recognition, and of...

Imagine a place where the gap between rich and poor is minimal, where the ruling elite govern democratically, and, despite having no...

Hamburg is a city that just won’t be defeated.  It’s been flooded, burned, bombed, seen half its population decimated by the plague and,...

An interview with Phillip Agnew, a civil rights activist, on what "Eyes on the Prize" means at this moment. Phillip Agnew is familiar...

by Lynne Blundensen A group of women from Seattle, has been publishing a newsletter about women and religion for several years.  For the...