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

It’s been called the “Pearl of the Adriatic,” “Venice Without Canals,” and “Heaven on Earth.” Pronounced Dubrovnik (DU-bro-vnik), it's...

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...

Many famous rights activists over decades have been known for expressing a mental liberation while in prison.  Nelson Mandela sang...

American educators are scratching their heads over how to get screen-seduced students to read books (the paper kind).  According to the...

"God makes happy those who know that they need Him.  The kingdom of heaven is for them" (Mathew 5:3 -- Worldwide English Version). What...

By far the most popular English Bible of all time, the King James translation was authorized by James I, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who...

Few places are as different as the country where Duma Boko was born in 1969 and the one where he became president last November. He...

The idea was to keep it simple.  Yes, simple; unpretentious songs for a simple unpretentious album.  The model would be Bob Dylan and the...

Look on the map and you'll see Vienna is exactly in the middle of Europe.  Yes, Vienna, as in the Vienna Waltz, the Vienna hot dog,...

This is the second book of Robert Peel's three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy A life-long Bible reader, reared in Calvinist...

There are three things you need to know about the early life of Mary Baker Eddy. First, from young childhood she refused to accept the...

At the outset of the new year, assessments of global security warn that conflict is spreading across more countries worldwide and a new...

One measure of a person's generosity is in everyday donations of time or treasure to others.  Helping a neighbor.  Rescuing a distant...

Produced by Howard Hawkes, "The Thing from Another World" is that rare Science Fiction movie to rise above the usual hokey Si-Fi fare,...

It seems every Lincoln biography is intrinsically linked to the Civil War.  Not so, with Jon Meacham's intimate portrait of our 16th ...