Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

he has lavished her upon his friends. Today’s readings offer a selection from the Book of Sirach, part of the “wisdom literature” tradition, though not included in the Hebrew Bible nor the Bibles used ...

“Scripture explains that knowing is a lot more than possessing facts. More specifically, the book of Proverbs describes wisdom as something that comes only from rigour: the rigour of study, of ...

(RNS) — Bible societies are attempting to understand why, in a time when 90% of the world’s population has access to the Christian sacred text, relatively few consider it a foundation of their lives. ...

Last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost which commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The feast reminds us that God is ever-present in our lives, hopefully informing and inspiring our actions. This ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Andrea Williams, the director at 305 8th Street, a group home in Huntsville for adults facing mental disabilities or challenges, suggested one of the women who live in the home ...

One of the biggest ever research projects into scripture is looking into how people use the Bible and what it means to them—an attempt to understand why, in a time when 90 percent of the world’s ...