Thomas Merton has been rightly called “one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century,” but his influence has spread far beyond the limits of the Catholic population. December 10th marks the day that American Trappist monk Thomas Mer

On her second album, relative newcomer Brandi Carlile and her band found the volume knobs and turned them up. There was no lack of either promise of fulfillment on Carlile's debut album but "The Story" both fulfills that promise and promises even more to

According to the analysis of prominent Canadian sociologist Reginald Bibby, the percentage of Canadians who are atheists has not changed significantly over the course of his now 30-year, ongoing study of religious belief.

Too often it seems – in politics, religion, and science - we are more interested in fighting against those who don’t speak like us than we are in first understanding what others are saying.

The church in Galileo’s time was willing to use, or at least threaten to use, capital punishment for those implying a non-literal understanding of an isolated scripture. And it only took the church a mere half millennium to issue an apology.

Andy Whitman writes about music for Paste Magazine and Allmusic. Last week he started raving about a young songwriter named Ezra Furman. Andy contends that Furman just might actually deserve the title “The New Dylan”.

It must be said that a scientist who claims religion has nothing to offer science is every bit as much a fundamentalist (in the common, derogatory sense of the word) as the religious believer who claims that science can offer nothing to religion.

Naisbitt says that “Our goal should not be to create cemeteries of information, but cradles of knowledge and inspiration.” This is tough to accomplish with so much information available.

In his mid-20th century book "Radical Monotheism and Western Culture", Yale professor and Christian ethicist H. Richard Niebuhr examined the prospect in a chapter called "Radical Faith and Western Science."

In a determined push to swell the number of self-acknowledged atheists, Richard Dawkins has initiated The Out Campaign. Dawkins makes it clear that none will be "outed" involuntarily.

According to a study published to be published in the July-August issue of the journal Annals of Family Medicine, Inc. , physicians who are more religious “do not appear to disproportionately care for the underserved.”

Vatican official calls on Catholics to withdraw support from the agency. Amnesty International responds, defending decision and claiming it never accepted Vatican financial support.

When experienced journalist and Christian William Lobdell asked to be put on the religion beat for the Los Angeles Times, the last thing he expected to discover was that his doubts would become stronger than his faith.

One week ago I sent a letter to the editor of the National Post that wasn't published. 48 hours later I posted the same letter as an article at Digital Journal. I now have readers, new intellectual sparring partners, and money in the bank.

Luke Brindley is a busy man. In addition to being a touring and recording artist with a new album release, Brindley owns Jammin’ Java, a 200-seat club with his brother Daniel, with whom he also performs as “Brindley Brothers”.

We need to keep a distance and a clear eye to see things in the present rather than in retrospect. Newspapers are the first draft of history but since what is happening now will determine the future, they are also a glimpse into the future.

If you need someone to blame for the huge sales number, blame the companies who make all the other crappy phones. But aren’t we all playing right into Steve Jobs‘ hands? You’re talking about the iPhone, and now I am too.

Dawkins should not wonder why he is not shaking people’s faith, and why he is not reaching the “dyed-in-the-wool faith-heads” he claims to be targeting in his book. He has a few things to learn about evangelizing.