One hundred years ago this year, during the winter of 1917, the French freighter Mont Blanc, laden with picric acid and TNT destined for the European war effort, headed into the great harbor of Halifax to join a convoy bound…

“There’s been few times in history where the country has faced such a fundamental threat to one of the basic rights of our Constitution, which is the right of freedom of religion.” Gary Bauer, of American Values, explaining why Republican…

Pope Francis has become the first Roman Pontiff to set foot in an Anglican Church in Rome. The symbolic act on the 26th of February is “hugely significant, yet surprisingly normal for two communities that are close to one another.”…

“All I know is Donald Trump was supposed to lose the election. For these states to go the way they did, in my opinion, I think it was the hand of God. It wasn’t hacking. It wasn’t Wiki-leaky or whatever….

The Royal Commission investigating institutional response to child abuse in the Australian Catholic Church has released a report detailing the statistics of the systemic abuse of children by clergy and the numbers are shocking. Seven percent of Australian Catholic priests…

“I think maybe God has allowed Donald Trump to win this election to protect this nation for the next few years by giving maybe an opportunity to have some good judges.” Franklin Graham, Baptist evangelist, President and CEO of the…

“Over a century ago, the United States of America went through a divisive and bloody Civil War that separated the people of this nation bone from marrow.” While that war was fought over slavery, there were many other issues involved….

“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.” Henry George, (1839-1897) American political economist. Source: The Land Question, 1881. Source Reference Henry George Quote

Did you know that your cell phone can be confiscated at an airport by Border Protection and downloaded to their computers? That’s right. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, that means they can access whatever is on your phone, all your…

“There is no inherent misdirection in holding unorthodox views. Indeed, the autonomous individual, free from compulsive conformance and unquestioned assumptions, is likely to be unorthodox… They stimulate the climate of controversy without which political democracy becomes an empty formalism.” Snell…

Catholics and Lutherans have made yet another step toward ecumenical commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. They have published a joint “Common Prayer,” booklet which provides a template for an ecumenical service, including prayers, appropriate hymns…

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.” Sir Leslie Stephen, (1832-1904), literary essayist, author. Source: The…