It's an incredibly surreal feeling to see someone you knew from high school being charged with murder. It's a feeling I imagine most of...

Six-year-old Cassie Mitchell stepped off of the school bus wearing a t-shirt with a silk-screened monarch butterfly on the front, purple...

Dirty Wars, the documentary film counterpart to the book of the same name, begins its investigation of the secretive world of U.S....

WARNING: This film contains explicitly sexual scenes. Please watch responsibly. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s first foray into directing, “Don...

The pope’s weekly Angelus message, named for the prayer it accompanies, is generally a routine occurrence akin to a Sunday homily. On...

Mark Hare is not the kind of person who strikes you as being aware that he played more than a minor role in changing the world. When I...

Concern about the death penalty in America is beginning to move through Evangelical and pro-life communities across the country. It’s...

The worsening violence and repression in Syria has left many analysts and policymakers in the United States and other western countries...

There has been an increase in suicides of military personnel in recent years. It has become quite a major issue. In fact, more veterans...

Abortion advocates were outraged when Texas legislators decided to advance a law restricting abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and...

BY AUDREY SAMPLE As someone who fiercely defends the preborn, people sometimes try to stereotype me as being anti-women's rights. Some...

BY ALEX* *Names in this piece (including the author's) have been shortened or omitted to protect privacy. Photo provided by the author....

BY MARY KRANE DERR The right to access the full range of voluntary family planning methods is often neglected or actively undermined in...

BY LILIANNA SERBICKI Swollen, a dream on its way to fruition; Nothing romantic. Lense (soft-focus) gone. Real fruit bruises; a real fruit...

BY AIMEE BEDOY I am writing this ten years to the day that those towers fell. And ten years later, I want us to discuss what we have...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...

BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...

BY NICHOLAS NEAL & AIMEE BEDOY On Tuesday, August 23rd, the rebel forces in Libya stormed Gadhafi's capital of Tripoli, thus declaring...

BY BILL SAMUEL What should our attitude -- as individuals, social movements and nations -- be toward war? When, if ever, is war...

BY OLIVIA MELDRUM While I am mistress of my mind, You will sleep safely every hour. No morning will you wake to find My warmth turned...