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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church USA visited Boston this week and while there granted a noteworthy interview to...

Last week I wrote an article on the contributions of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died on Monday (4/21/07) at the age of 76. I noted...

"It's a wonderful privileged life, you know, being a book writer." David Halberstam said that to Brian Lamb of C-SPAN in 1993. Halberstam was a...

Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin died this week at age 76, on the heels of two decades of both extraordinary health problems and political...

In an historic 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the government's right to ban the partial birth abortion procedure. April 18, 2007...

As we pray for strength for the families who have lost loved ones, we have to ask: After the coffins are lowered and the orations read, what then?

Who among us is not grieving with the families of those who died at Virginia Tech this week? We mourn with them and pray for the families of the...

Crosswalk.com's Sarah Jennings remembers her time as a student at Virginia Tech, during a different tragedy...

Imus' comments damaged women, God's creation, with a derogatory, adulterous comment of damaging tone. The sad part is that we are too insensitive...

A growing number of persons want to consider themselves Christians... without believing Christianity's doctrines, accepting its morality, following...

Wisconsin and Ohio are considering bills that would require serious sex offenders, particularly those who prey on children, to affix neon green...

I often fear that the vast ignorance of Americans and others around the world concerning the history of Islam condemns them to be pawns in the...

There is, of course, no greater sport than baseball—a fact that is one of those indisputable laws of the universe. It is incumbent upon those who...

When will peace come to Darfur? After four years of genocide (the killings started in February 2003), that question has lost all but its rhetorical...

NOTE: This is an updated version of the MULLINGS originally published in April 2005 on the day of the first Washington Nationals' baseball game at...