Ed Spivey Jr. Who said it was a good idea to mimic the human brain? MICROSOFT WORD is one of those computer p ...

Those using the term “undocumented” have noted the changing circumstances within the culture and recognize that using such inflammatory terminology only adds fuel to the proverbial political fire around the is ...

Is America a place where she really can become an architect, a lawyer or anything she wants to become? And will the schools prepare her? Odeth is a living letter to me and to you. Her life asks a vital questio ...

From the first day of school until the last, our watchword is, "We use words to build up instead of tear down. We use words to help and not to hurt." Even my former students can recite this word for ...

When people who have immigrated to another country through methods other than the official legal system are discussed, we hear quite a few words bandied about: “illegal,” “undocumented,” and “alien” just to na ...

When you regularly use the language of violence and degradation, you soon become participants in its degradation and pain, whether as victim or perpetrator. But I tell you that ...

It’s been a mind-boggling fortnight at the Internet water cooler. Kony 2012. Mike Daisey’s dubious portrayal of Apple’s manufacturing practices abroad. Questions of whether the “Christian Movie Establishment” ...

Reza Aslan What's in a word? Plenty. In April, a new American president—the son of a black Muslim father ...

David Rensberger Brian McLaren’s article “Found in Translation” offers some delightfully thought-provoking new images for God’s way and ou ...

Brian D. McLaren 'Kingdom of God' is so last-century. Are there new ways to talk about Jesus' good news? ...

E.J. Dionne Jr. Why the language of the marketplace shouldn't rule our moral and political thinking. ...

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter The faith-based anti-globalization movement is learni ...

Rosemary Radford Ruether How language reflects our understanding of God. Wisdom shines bright and never fa ...