Nature Religion

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under the Bush administration utterly supine to nearly every extractive, Superfund site-creating and/or polluting industry, has suddenly gotten religion. They have decided to save us from the environmental...

DENVER — Give them that old-time religion — ancient religion — and then watch an exploding population of modern Pagans give it a contemporary twist. The number of Neopagans roughly doubles about every 18 months in the United States,...

During this election year the topic of religion is very much in the news: religious endorsements have seemed to both bless and curse all the candidates. Rumors abound concerning the religious views of public leaders and, ironically, in the country that...

As Gregory Rodriguez notes in his column, environmentalism has become a secular proxy religion. And it's growing faster than any of the world's traditional beliefs. Sadly, Rodriguez fails to note that the productive scientific motives and technologies...

The European traditions at St. Benedict's Episcopal Church are now spiced with Caribbean and Latin American flavor. Jamaican lilts and Spanish accents blend harmoniously with the sounds of standard English at the church in Plantation. Traditional hymns...

Mental issues grow after troops' return Soldiers who have served in Iraq are suffering substantially greater mental distress several months after leaving the combat zone than they do when they first return to the U.S., according to a study by Army...

Paul Salopek, who was traveling in Africa to report on the culture and history of the Sahel for National Geographic magazine, was detained by Sudanese authorities and on Aug. 26 charged with espionage in a North Darfur court in El Fashir, Sudan....

TRACY — Growing up on the family ranch here, Rep. Richard W. Pombo (R-Tracy) says, he learned that "you have to work till you're done. There's nobody else to pick up the slack." It's a lesson he carried from the fields of the northern San Joaquin...

EARLIER THIS month, every transit bus in New York City displayed this slogan: "It All Started on a Bus." The signs asked riders to leave the seat behind the bus driver vacant, as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to relinquish her...

This month, parents throughout South Florida will be checking out private schools, seeking the best possible school for their children. Since most private schools in the area start the enrollment process in January, parents will be visiting schools,...

In a simpler time, no one was alarmed about the youngsters and their adult leaders who hiked, paddled and camped along the shores of Coralville Lake at Camp Daybreak. Now, though,the former Girl Scout summer camp--vacant for more than a decade--is at the...

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