An American child is dying at home. The parents are members of a Christian sect that does not believe in modern medicine. They pray fervently but the child grows worse and dies. "It was God's will," ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. How did our society get the notion that church-goers or religious people that do bizarre wrong ...

Fundamentalists were angered in 1973 when the Supreme Court confirmed the right to abortion and the rights of the LGBTQ community to live life as they choose. In their eyes, these human rights ...

What happened to our values, people? I read the Jan. 24 Letter to the Editor and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He condemned an Episcopal bishop for preaching humanity, concern, compassion, love ...

Thomas Jefferson studied and embraced Enlightenment philosophy, the ideas of the Age of Reason. And they inspired him when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be ...