Environmental saints
Mallory McDuff writes about saints who respond through faith to environmental degradation here on earth, rather than wait for heaven.
Mallory McDuff writes about saints who respond through faith to environmental degradation here on earth, rather than wait for heaven.
An 18 year old Muslim woman was not hired because she wears a headscarf.
A California judge has thrown out the request of a pro-Prop 8 group that he order California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Proposition 8.
Physicist Stephen Hawking says in a new book that the “universe can and will create itself from nothing,” so there is no need for God.
The Rev. Lisa Vaughn of St. Timothy’s Church near Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be blessing mobile phones and other gadgets this weekend.
In 1833, many Americans still supported slavery. Many others hated both slavery and abolitionists. They thought slavery was evil but feared that giving immediate freedom to millions of poor, uneducated black slaves might hurt the U.S. economy, flood the country with beggars and criminals, and cause a serious break between the North and the South. So few white Americans supported the abolitionist cause that in 1831 only twenty-five of Garrison’s five hundred subscribers to the Liberator were white.