A friend in the law biz passes along this link to Religion Clause, a blog that examines legal cases and news developments related to the separation of church and state. It's by Howard M. Friedman, a law professor emeritus at...
National Catholic Reporter has a feature about the Rev. Raymond Helmick, a Jesuit theology professor at Boston College who has been writing letters for decades to Israeli, Plaestinian and American leaders, seeking a peaceful resolution to Mideast conflicts. Among the...
With Barack Obama's inauguration coming just a day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, comparisons between the two events are inevitable. In this video produced by Duke University, William Turner Jr., a professor of homiletics at Duke Divinity School (and...
Thomas White, the vice president for student services at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, created a bit of a furor when he declared at a campus chapel service earlier this month that the use of birth control pills...
"Think of a dirt road. The toughest place to make your way is right down the middle. If you can get in the ruts on either side, everything will be smooth. The middle is where the weeds and the rocks...
A Carnegie Mellon University professor whose "last lecture" of life's lessons became an Internet sensation -- and led to a best-selling book -- was celebrated this week for challenging people to strive for more than they thought they could...
Randy Pausch, the 47-year-old Carnegie Mellon University professor whose battle with pancreatic cancer became the subject of a best-selling memoir, "The Last Lecture," has died. Here's the story. And here's some background on Pausch, his book, and his inspiring...
In this week's Religion Sneak Peek, Jeff told you about the amazing tale of Randy Pausch, the 47-year-old Carnegie Mellon University professor who is dying of pancreatic cancer. Pausch gave a "last lecture" in September that has become an...
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