Last week several television stations around the United States announced that they are refusing to air NBC's new racy sitcom Coupling.

After a winter of getting up in the dark, coming home in the dark with freezing temperatures and snowstorms, Canadians long for the first robin and signs of spring.

When the removal of a Ten Commandments monument took place did God notice?

Many Europeans see America as, among other things, a country of contrasts. At times some of those contrasts cast a baffling image across the Atlantic. Religion is a prime example. The men who wrote the U.S. Constitution were believers in...

Remember the puzzles we played where you connect the dots to reveal a picture of an object or a person? I have been thinking recently about this game and applying it to our current world. A new image is appearing...

It happens so frequently that most people probably don't even notice it. Considering the number of biblical terms and names used, a non-English speaker with a dictionary could be forgiven for thinking Britain is a very religious nation.

It's hard to say which was the greater miscarriage of justice in the U.S. justice system this week—the federal court order that a granite monument containing the Ten Commandments be removed from the Alabama State Judicial Building, or the U.S...

The European Parliament is now under the leadership of the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and the next six months will likely see passionate debate as Europe strives to assume a major role in world affairs...

People today blithely stumble along in their lives, ignorant of the fact that there is a "god of this world", Satan the devil, who is in control behind the scenes and behind much of what happens on earth. Although most...

"Welcome and congratulations. I am delighted you could make it. Getting here wasn't easy." These are the first sentences of the introduction to best-selling author Bill Bryson's new book, A Short History of Nearly Everything. He is referring to your...

Once again, "same-sex marriage" is in the news. The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down a Texas law banning "deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex."...

Three thousand people gathered in Berlin's Schöneberg town hall square on June 26 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. The crowd was much smaller than the estimated nearly half...

Sodomy is now legal all over America, following a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down anti-sodomy laws in 13 states. Other states had already changed laws that went back centuries...

Every American knows there is one big famous crack in the American icon of the Liberty Bell of Philadelphia, but what other ageless story does this instrument so associated with freedom tell us that still rings true...

Today in Europe we are seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism. In the two years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anti-Semitism has been on the increase in Europe...

While the world focuses on the continuing violence in the Middle East, prophetically significant events are transpiring in Europe. On Friday, June 13, the Convention on the Future of Europe completed its work of drafting a new constitution for the...

Beyond the obvious differences among nationalities, something else is spoiling the relationships between Americans and their friends abroad. For the last 50 years the unstoppable spread of an insidious American culture has become a blight that is increasingly resented everywhere...

In the slipstream of 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror, Americans pray again. President Bush's, genuine, non-photo-op, not-crying-on-cue example of personal prayer and faith presents a huge motivating factor. Yes, amazing but true, prayer has come back to...

Is peace in the Middle East attainable in this lifetime? What will it take to achieve it? More pointedly, Who will it take to attain it?

A hundred years after the Wright brothers, is the airline industry in danger of being grounded?