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By Steve Beard For 50 years, Nicholas Winton kept an explosive and dramatic secret from his wife. It was only after she found an old scrapbook in the attic of their home – names, documents, photographs – that he first … Continue reading →

“If you subscribe to the caricature of devout religious believers as mostly sanctimonious hypocrites, the kind who rake in cash and care about human life only when it is unborn, come visit the doctor here,” observed New York Times columnist Nickolas … Continue reading →

By Patriarch Bartholomew (270th Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, is spiritual leader to 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world.) In a series of seminars organized between 1994 and 1998 on the island of Halki off the coast … Continue reading →

By Krissah Thompson “I was a Kool-Aid-drinking Democrat,” Kirsten Powers recalls wryly. That was in her 20s and early 30s, when she was an operator on the rise — first in the Clinton administration, when she handled media strategy for … Continue reading →

By Sarah Heath “The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and foster its renewal is our only hope.” ––Wendall Berry We were listening … Continue reading →

By Steve Beard A six-episode revival of the sci-fi hit The X-Files was recently announced that would reunite actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson after 13 years as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Coming from drastically differing … Continue reading →

By Steve Beard An astounding 34,000 mini Martin Luther action figures were sold out within the first 72 hours of availability. The smiling Reformer toy made by Playmobil was created as a kitchy keepsake for German tourist boards and Bavarian … Continue reading →