Since Adam wrote here yesterday of science as a meaningful pursuit, or better, of how a science-inspired way of quenching our unquenchable thirst for knowledge about ourselves and the world will add ...

FIRST THINGS is a brainy American journal for reflective, religious types who also hold opinions about earthly matters, usually conservative opinions. And it can at times serve as a forum for original ...

The Greek Titan, Atlas, sired a daughter named Calypso, a sea nymph. Calypso, and her beguiling music, enticed Odysseus to delay his voyage (his odyssey) home and to Penelope, his wife. And for seven ...

Sci-fi television is often full of storylines about heroes who prevent the destruction of humanity, but post-apocalyptic visions have mostly been reserved for the big screen. From Mad Max to The Road ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- When the first plane flew into the World Trade Center the morning of Sept. 11, Amy N. Worthen was standing in the nave of the Basilica of Saint John in Des Moines, ...

- the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle ...