Stone may be stable, certain, and reliable, but it’s ultimately lifeless, cold, and dead. This is Debbie Blue’s central idea in her new book, which asserts that the Bible is alive, not static and dead as a stone. While rock solid... Read More

Nearly every family can boast of (or deny) an eccentric relative or two: the quaint aunt who collects purple tea cozies, the screwball cousin who apes the “Three Stooges” at Thanksgiving dinner. In Jacobs’ family, the honor went to... Read More

Growing up a music junkie in the 1970s, Kennedy faithfully dressed up as a member of the band Kiss every Halloween. After a handful of piteous musical attempts on his own, he landed in New York City, a self-identified slacker with no... Read More

Biotechnology has run amok, and cloned human remains have been found in an otherwise empty city. An uneasy political situation threatens to erupt into violence, perhaps even another war, over a precious source of fuel. Over all this... Read More

Global warming, a concept once under the sole jurisdiction of overeager environmental activists, has lately developed into an issue nearly universally accepted as a major problem in dire need of universal human attention. Nevertheless,... Read More