A judge in North Carolina has resigned from his position in order to avoid presiding over gay marriages, which are now legal in the state. Swain County Magistrate Gilbert... Read More

Abortion is a blessing and abortionists are doing holy work, says Anglican priest [Excerpts]

The new Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massacusetts, has given a sermon describing abortions as a "blessing" for the women who undergo them. The Rev Katherine Hancock... Read More

Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey revealed that Americans are overwhelmingly negative about the future of moral values in the United States with 73 percent believing that moral... Read More

This is a story about words we can't print in this story. You probably hear these words often, and more than ever before. But even though we can't print them - we do have our standards - we can certainly ask: Are we living in an Age of Profanity?

Nearly three-quarters of Americans... Read More

Belgium is looking to expand its euthanasia law to include minors — even though reports show the 10-year-old law has suffered from widespread abuses, including involuntary euthanasia.

Belgium is considering a significant change to its decade-old euthanasia law... Read More

A California chapter of the Boy Scouts of America is directly challenging the national organization's ban on gays by formally recommending that an openly gay former Scout be awarded the top rank of Eagle.

"From what I understand, this has never happened... Read More

Men and women who moved in together used to raise eyebrows. Living together out of wedlock, once considered "shacking up" or "living in sin," has lost its stigma as cohabitation has become mainstream.

A new website, Say No to Creationist Vouchers has joined the fight “to prevent our public money from being used to teach creationism.” It is doing battle by listing private schools that take taxpayer supported vouchers and then teach creationism as a part of their Bible-based lessons. Its... Read More

More than half of the World's population today lives in cities.

If your marriage is ending in a divorce, you're going through a lot. Either you can't wait for your former half to get out of your life or you need to distract yourself from the split. A divorce party may be just the thing to help you get past this difficult time. While it may not be entirely... Read More

'A female dancer dances in a skin coloured stocking in the middle of the church in front of the altar. She crawls about on the floor and wraps herself in a hanging down white cloth. Is this a blasphemous provocation, a scoffing at the Christian religion?

'No it is only one of the items on... Read More

In many ways, the television has quickly become one of the worst inventions in recent history. Cable companies and television networks seem to have no problem proliferating inappropriate material through the screen and in many cases, it has had a negative impact on society and more importantly,... Read More

Meditation Challenge.

"The goal of the Meditation Challenge is to help 100,000 people develop the habit of meditation," says author/speaker/meditation facilitator Lisa Hepner of Peaceful Earth, LLC. "The sad truth is that most people are aware of the benefits of meditation and yet very... Read More

More than one in five sexually teenage girls have used the morning-after pill-a dramatic increase that likely reflects that it is easier now for teens to buy the emergency contraceptive

The report shows that use of the morning after pill rose steadily from a decade earlier, when it was 1... Read More

A survey from the Family Research Council and the National Religious Broadcasters, found that 81 percent of Americans think that the government should “leave people free to follow their belief about marriage as they live their daily lives at work and in the way they run their businesses."

(Reuters) - New shows "The New Normal," "Girls" and comedy "Go On" have helped U.S. television rack up a record number of gay, bisexual and transgender characters, gay rights group GLAAD said on Friday.

In its 8th annual report tracking gender and ethnic diversity on television, the Gay... Read More

When the word "God" becomes inappropriate in public schools, America really has ceased to exist.

Consider the story of a first-grade girl in West Marion, North Carolina, who had the word "God" stripped from a poem she wrote and was going to read at her school's Veterans Day assembly... Read More

A Washington, D.C.-based secular organization has filed a lawsuit against the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

The American Humanist Association announced Monday that a New Jersey school district will be the latest entity sued over the two words.

David Niose, attorney... Read More

The twentieth century was an unprecedented period of change and the twenty-first century is proving to be even more dramatic with events unfolding at break-neck speed. At no time in history have more changes occurred in science and in the political structure of the world. Events are changing so... Read More

New Zealand Pastors Create Sports Bar Church Service Complete With Beer Drinking [Excerpts]

Most Christians are familiar with the biblical story of Jesus turning water into wine, but now two New Zealand pastors are seeking to turn a pub into a church complete with beer-drinking during the... Read More