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In the 1998 movie “Armageddon,” the Administrator of NASA, played by Billy Bob Thornton, informs the President that a huge asteroid is on a...

The word “vandalism” comes from the Vandals, a Germanic tribe that sacked Rome in the middle of the 5th century. These “barbarians,” as Roman...

Yesterday I told you about a district in northern India where, according to reports, not a single girl was born for three months. The main cause of...

Until recently, Uttarkashi in northern Indian was noted primarily for its beautiful scenery and Hindu temples, and because it shares a border with...

Between 1997 and 2016, researchers at an excavation near Ashkelon in Israel examined the remains of more than one hundred humans, remains that...

You might think this is another story about transgender activism. And in a way, it is. But at an even deeper level, this is a story about...

One of the most repeated themes of science fiction movies is humans merging with or being replaced by machines. Entire movie franchises are built...

More than twenty years ago, the late Father Richard John Neuhaus penned one of his most memorable sayings. When you come across an article titled...

The year 2019 is the ten-year anniversary of a statement that drew the line for Christians on three central issues: life, marriage, and religious...

Back in January of last year, Cecile Richards stepped down as president of Planned Parenthood. She left behind her a political lightning rod of an...

Planck’s constant is “the amount of energy carried by a photon with the frequency of its electromagnetic wave.” For the curious, it’s 6.62607015*...

Back in 1970, the Nixon administration enacted the Title X Family Funding Program. As described on the HHS website, “For more than 40 years, Title...

While the loudest voices in our culture continue to insist that men and women are interchangeable, science is offering more evidence than ever that...

When the Communist Party took over mainland China in 1949, there were an estimated 5 million Christians. Three-plus decades of severe persecution...

All of us have times when we want to be pampered. For some, that means a few hours at a day spa or a hike in the great outdoors. But another option...