In crisis, the wrong question to ask is, "What have I done to deserve this?" The right one is, "What am I now being summoned to do?" Each of us has a task. Every life has a purpose. We can bear the pain of the past when we discover the future we are called on to make. […]
WASHINGTON -- Some Alabama physicians and physician assistants were surprised this week to receive a letter with a new demand from the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners: Show us your papers. Under the state's 2011 immigration law, these medical professionals are now required to prove they are U.S. citizens or in the country legally to maintain their li […]
WASHINGTON -- Even though Rasel Parvez is out of prison, he isn't out of danger."They have pushed my life to a state in which I cannot walk free. I remain in self-confinement day after day, and my social relations are mostly snapped," said Parvez, 36, in an interview with The Huffington Post.He is talking about the Bangladeshi government, whic […]
-- Is Michael Phelps planning a comeback?A report Friday evening from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The three-paragraph story on the station's Web site was posted by news anchor Peter Busch, who is the son of Frank Busch, director of the U […]
By Jerry Campbell Religion News ServiceCLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As one of our Ph.D. students and an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Timothy felt spiritually called to the […]
It was so easy in the "old days" to receive unwanted spam in your email inbox and just delete it, now spam is a sly thing, it creeps into everything and there are many forms. Social media is now the new spam magnet. […]
There is an urgency to make things happen in Thailand -- a sense that some of the past political disruptions may be a thing of the past. They have moved far beyond the "domino that refused to fall" during the Cold War. […]
"WARRRRRRRIORRRRRRRS!"With Golden State 37.3 seconds away from having their season end at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs, Warriors head coach Mark Jackson subbed out his starters. Not only did they walk off the court to a standing ovation, the fans serenaded them with chants of "Warriors" for the rest of the game. After the postgame h […]
Will today mark the dawning of another new era? Or will Congress miss the opportunity to examine the problems within the agency that extend beyond this one scandal? […]
At the end of a thrilling, contentious night in the Spanish capital, Real Madrid still had zero major trophies on the season. In lieu of silverware, los Merengues had picked up a pair of ill-timed ejections. Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho were absent from the field at Bernabéu when the final whistle sounded in Atletico Madrid's 2-1 win over Re […]