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...

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,...