* A Christian college in Colorado that requires students to attend chapel and staff to affirm that the Bible is "infallible" should be allowed to receive state scholarship funds, the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has ruled. The decision overturned a 2007 lower-court ruling that found Colorado...
Her Bible was open, which is no surprise. If Dana Pounds, a 2006 Air Force Academy graduate, isn't throwing a javelin, she's probably examining her little black book. On Tuesday morning, as she prepared to compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Pounds relaxed in a fast- food restaurant on Academy...
DESIGN BEAT THE CRUNCH Britain's top interiors experts tell Kate Watson-Smyth how to spruce up your house without breaking the bank The credit crunch is really beginning to squeeze now, and many of us have spent all our money just getting on...
Chicago Theological Seminary has named Hebrew Bible scholar Alice Hunt as the 12th president in its 153-year history, to succeed Susan Thistlethwaite, who returns to teaching after serving for a decade as the United Church of Christ-related seminary's first woman president. Hunt, who was associate dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity...
BERLIN AFP — If you ever fancied lunch in the Tower of Babel, visiting an "original size" Noah's Ark or a multimedia depiction of the final battle between Good and Evil, you may not have long to wait. Under plans announced by a group of Swiss evangelical Christians and...
BAGHDAD AFP — The US military said on Friday it was probing complaints that marines handed out coins inscribed with a verse from the Bible to a group of Sunni Muslims in Iraq, sparking outrage among local residents. It said a service member involved in the incident in the...
NEW ORLEANS -- Tangipahoa Parish public schools must stop in- school Bible giveaways to students, a federal judge ruled. "Distribution of Bibles is a religious activity without a secular purpose" and amounts to school board promotion of Christianity, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier ruled. As...
Fantasy Plays Strong as Both the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter Series are on the List as Well ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- When it comes to reading, we know what genre Americans are reading (see Harris Poll #37, April 7, 2008), but what is Americans' favorite book? Across...
MARSEILLE, France AFP — Gerald Passedat, a chef with a special knack for fish aptly based on the shores of the Mediterranean, is the new kid on the block joining France's elite league of three-star Michelin chefs. Now ranked good enough to pull off the food bible's top-of-the-class rating,...
PARIS AFP — A chef with a special knack for fish, aptly based in the Mediterranean port of Marseille, was tipped by one of France's top food writers Monday as likely winner of a prestigious three-star rating in France's food bible, the Michelin guide. Francois Simon, food critic for...
PUBLISHING FASHION T magazine, the cutting-edge style supplement of The New York Times, is going online and is also now available on British news stands. Susie Rushton reports They dragged their John Lobb-shod feet for a decade but the luxury goods brands are finally getting...
* In May 2006, James Piereson published a remarkable article in Commentary, "Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up." The article has now been expanded into a book, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution Encounter. Briefly put, the argument is that the assassination of John E Kennedy...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli scientists said on Tuesday they have created the world's smallest Bible, fitting a Hebrew-language version of the holy book on a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead. Researchers from Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, were able to pack the 308,428-word Hebrew Bible -- known...
BOYD TONKIN Even the silliest of costumed television romps will sometimes let in just a little chink of truth. With its heaving bosoms and writhing royal loins, the first series of The Tudors - bought from the Showtime cable network by the BBC - hardly looked like the...
An interesting conundrum came up recently in Randy Cohen's column, The Ethicist, that bears on our post Tuesday regarding the role of human resources in workplace ethics. In the wake of the recent California Supreme Court Ruling that recognized the right of same-sex couples to marry, a reader writes into...
Americans hoping to attend the Beijing Olympics next summer may want to avoid bringing along certain Hollywood movies or State Department reports. An American intercepted at the Beijing airport with these items may need to convince customs officials they are only for his "personal" use. This is what I learned...
LONDON AFP — Kate Moss got a triple slap in the face from Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine, whose best dressed women in Britain 2007 list comes out Thursday. Not only did the supermodel slide down the glossy monthly style bible's rankings, but she was also beaten by two models...
WASHINGTON AFP — Bowing and mouthing prayers, Saleh Williams prostrates himself on a white sheet beside his colleagues. For these Muslims, Friday worship takes place not in a mosque, but a meeting room in the Capitol -- at the heart of US democracy. This gathering, for the Friday worship...
BEIJING AFP — China has released a leader of the nation's underground Protestant church after being detained for three years for illegal possession of thousands of Bibles, a Christian activist group said Monday. Cai Zhuohua from Beijing was freed September 10, according to a statement from the US-based China...
SCHAGEN, The Netherlands AFP — He dreamed about it for fourteen years and when he finally started it took Dutch contractor Johan Huibers only 16 months to rebuild Noah's Ark. Huibers, a jovial man with a smile for everyone, said he got the idea to build his ark after...
