Did Jesus follow the Golden Rule? The little kids among us might answer, "Yes! He made it up!" Actually, the maxim was around at least 500 years before Jesus' time and Confucius might be the most ...

So begins one of the most popular—and most divisive—pieces of modern liturgical music. Already with the first line, a flurry of critics complain, “Don’t make me sing the part of God!” Some even take ...

As we know, Descartes died (1650), but his ideas haven't disappeared. Today we can argue that Descartes' brilliant thinking undergirds much of modernity's individualism, an approach to life that, ...