Perhaps you've seen some of the controversy around the December cover of Wired magazine. The cover is a close-up image of a pair of Caucasian breasts, referencing the cover story about a new bio-technology that allows women to grow more of their own breast tissue ...

A few years ago, my husband and I were waiting for our dinner to arrive in a Thai restaurant, when a movement at the next table caught my eye. An older couple was finishing up their meal. The man was settling the check, and the woman was fishing two plastic containers ...

I knew my parents were coming, and not to visit—which was often, though living on the opposite coast, not often enough—but coming to live. Forever.

To understand what a great adjustment this would mean, it helps to know that I haven't lived within 1,000 ...

"Why are the comics pink?" my mother wanted to know a few weeks ago, glancing at the Sunday funnies lying on the kitchen table.
"Breast cancer," I explained.

Enough said. Anyone who hasn't been living on Neptune for the past few years knows that pink is shorthand ...

Blasphemy laws in Pakistan legislate against "wounding the religious feelings of any person," specifically regarding Islam. In 1992, the death penalty became mandatory upon conviction on blasphemy charges. So far no one has been executed under the blasphemy law, ...

It's taken years for me to integrate Sabbath-keeping into my week. For most of my life, I have attended a church service on Sundays, but otherwise Sundays haven't been distinct. In recent years, though, ceasing from work, resting, and celebrating God's goodness ...

I've always been a little suspicious of Facebook's Farmville app, but I never thought it would become an accessory to murder.

The online game, which allows players to plow, plant, and grow virtual crops, seems to turn otherwise sane people into chronic status updaters ...

Miscarriage has been in the news cycle recently. Former President Bush confessed in an interview last week that his mother, after miscarrying, kept the baby in a jar and showed it to her young son. Bush says that act solidified his pro-life stance and went on ...

I jumped on a bandwagon Wednesday. I was one of the thousands who tweeted out against Amazon.com's decision to carry on its Kindle store the e-book The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct.

According to Philip R. Greaves II, his ...

The chairman of the American Red Cross—the humanitarian organization founded by Clara Barton in 1881—is, actually, not a chairman. Bonnie McElveen-Hunter was appointed the first woman to the position by President George W. Bush in June 2004. Before ...

Siew Mei Ang Cheung knows what it's like to be marginalized. Growing up as a Chinese immigrant in Malaysia, she was subject to an educational quota system that she says limited ethnic minorities' opportunities. The precocious youngster was undaunted by the challenges, ...

For a few years now, we've begun our family meals with a blessing. We started with "The Lord's Been Good to Me," otherwise known in our household as "Johnny Appleseed." The song's theology is pretty innocuous. It acknowledges God's existence and says a basic thank ...

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's spotlight during the midterm elections will likely continue as her TLC show premieres this week and a new book is published in two weeks.

Sarah Palin's Alaska, an eight-part series, premieres November 14 at 9/8c. Her book America ...

The difficulty some of us have remembering others' names is explained, at least in part, by the fact that when being introduced to someone new, the name we are listening for is our own.

That kind of listening was going on at Cape Town 2010—not so much in ...

Athletic competition builds character in our boys.
We do not need that kind of character in our girls.
~ Connecticut judge, 1971

Last month the Women's Sports Foundation held its annual Salute to Women in Sports at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. ...