What's a girl to do when the Girl Scouts actively support gay rights and others issues conservative Christians take issue with? Since 1995 an alternative, American Heritage Girls, has been available.

Anglican Archbishop Dr. Rowan Williams will convene a meeting hosted by Georgetown University between Christians and Muslims in an effort, Dr. Williams said, to lead to the "deepening of understanding and friendship between us."

Prolific evangelical Christian author, editor, publisher, and journalist James C. Hefley died at his home in Hannibal, Missouri at 73 on March 20, 2004.

Everything from rabbit's feet for luck to "black Bibles" for satanic worship seem to have become popular cultural features. Penn State associate professor Bill Ellis examines this phenomenon -- which he describes as making the philosophical accessible to the populus -- in his new book Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Pop Culture (University of Kentucky, 2004). Read the full story here: Researcher Examines Occult

CNN is running an article on Phil Plait's debunking of Richard Hoagland's claims about ancient civilizations on Mars. Claims like these have been popularized in Christian circles by speakers such as Chuck Missler (for example, see here).

Phil Plait's debunking may be found at his Bad Astronomy web site.

Often people have questions about how the books of the Old Testament have come to be regarded as the Word of God for Christians and Jews. Questions also arise about why the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Bibles include books in their Old Testament that are not found in the Jewish scriptures (the Tanach) and Protestant scriptures. The following article gives a good summary of this issue:
Old Testament Canon Link