Apologetics
APOLOGETICS. [This entry, which is restricted to consideration of monotheistic religions, places religious apologetics in comparative perspective and examines the difference between apolog...
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Apologists
"Apologists" is the term used historically in reference to Christian teachers from the second century to the fourth who wrote treatises defending their religion against charge...
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Patristic Philosophy
"Patristic philosophy" is the term used to refer to the philosophical presuppositions, motifs, and structures in the writings of the early Christian apologists and C...
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Getting fired wasn't the first time Don Imus had hit rock bottom.Like his stumble into addiction in the 1980s, Imus fell into a personal purgatory after calling the Rutgers University women's baske...
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Washington (dpa) - A popular and outspoken US radio talk show host
was suspended Monday for two weeks after making racially-charged
comments about a women's college basketba...
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Republican presidential candidate Tommy Thompson told a Jewish group Monday that earning money is "part of the Jewish tradition," a remark for which he later apologized."I'm in the private sector a...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
KYUMA'S A-BOMB REMARK (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published July 2)
More than 200,0...
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The White House, one of the most historic structures in the nation's capital, burnt to the ground today after Vice President Dick Cheney attempted to incinerate a cache of CIA interrogation tapes i...
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Hillary Clinton was on her game all day Sunday, hitting all the right notes, drawing huge ovations from voters, getting people to commit their support on caucus cards. And yet, thanks to two of her...
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An order of Roman Catholic priests announced a $5 million settlement Thursday with 16 people who said they were sexually abused while attending a boarding school on an American Indian reservation.T...
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To upset the bourgeoisie, the French poet Gérard de Nerval used to walk a lobster around the streets of Paris on a blue ribbon. Lobsters, he said, were “peaceful serious creatures who kn...
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“Honestly, I’m having a panic attack,” said Bourne Ultimatum co-star Julia Stiles, 26, wearing sleeveless, shiny purple after the movie’s East Hampton premiere, which was or...
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