Today is Tu Bishvat, the Jewish “New Year of the Trees.” Originally a quasi-economic date, used to calculate the ages of fruit trees (and thus their suitability for tithing), the day was turned by ...

To repent simply means to change your mind in a healthy and productive way. It doesn't smell of anything except having the good sense to rethink your former assumptions about a subject, realize your ...

How we can change the angry cultural debates online and in church. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther is said to have posted 95 theses, or “Disputation on the Power of Indulgences,” on the door of All ...

A Gary man was charged Friday with fatally shooting a man renting a room from him and his father — angry after the victim brought up his sex offender status. Adam Mong, 43, is charged with murder, ...

VICTOR SALVA IS THE DIRECTOR OF A new Disney film, "Powder," about a telekinetic teenager with skin like baking powder. Salva, 37, is also a convicted child-molester. In 1988 he confessed to having ...

But the bot does more than name and shame — it’s meant to help people improve the way they apologize to each other. (JTA) — Move over, tashlich: Twitter is the new place to atone, thanks to a bot ...