TEMPTATION. Approaches to the complex phenomenon of temptation are as diversified as are cultures, worldviews, the self-understanding of men and women, the concept of sin, and so on. But behind all the astonishing differences there might well be...

"Temptation" is a single released by British group New Order on Factory Records in 1982. Released on 12" and 7" vinyl, both formats had the catalogue number FAC 63. The two formats are not merely different mixes, but entirely separate recordings of the...

When mega-pastor Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church opened last year in its new Houston home, the city's former professional basketball arena, a most unlikely guest was on hand for the celebration: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Rep. James Clyburn (D- S.C.), a minister's son...

Otis Williams weathers decades of turmoil, change It's been 47 years since Otis Williams helped to form the Temptations, arguably the most successful male vocal group to emerge from the Motown movement of the 1960s. Though generations have passed since the group...

It's not easy to take a stand. Up in his 14th-floor office, Abel* knows this. Three months ago, Abel, the celebrated editor of a weekly magazine in New York, told a reporter for the New York Times that he had given up on social trend...

President Bush, at the national Catholic prayer breakfast, stressed his opposition to easing restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, a reference to a bill he's threatened to veto."In our day there is a temptation to manipulate life in ways that do not respect...