The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

Oklahoma is forcing courts – as they did in Tennessee in 1925 – to wrestle with the question of how much religion is ...

I am, of course, talking about the famous Scopes (Monkey) trial that is familiar to many Americans today. But it seems that ...

While climate change debates rage in political forums, and humanitarian agencies rush to respond to flood disasters in Bangladesh, India, Brazil, China, and even Western Europe, the spiritual ...

Back in March of 1925, a Tennessee state representative and fundamentalist Christian activist named John W. Butler succeeded in having a law passed prohibiting the state's public schools from teaching ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

It is the story of Bertram Cates (John Scopes), a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who is arrested and stands ...