Have you ever felt left out? It’s no fun being excluded by others, right? In today’s story, we’ll meet two animals who are always excluding others – until one crafty critter finds a way to invite ...

making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased” (Jer 18:2-3). Today’s readings reveal a simple truth about our relationship with God: that in God’s hands, we can be made and remade. The ...

Changes in health care delivery has created a bifurcation in the REIT sector as many yield-starved investors have sought out the highest quality companies. The big headwind for health care REITs is in ...

One of our key jobs in K-12 education is helping students become well-informed, "discerning" (to use a word from our school district's vision statement) users of technology. While this means getting ...

Gluten-free products are proliferating like mad, and now merit whole aisles in upscale grocery stores. More and more of my friends and acquaintances are dropping gluten out of their diets and saying ...

Francis Beckwith has a great response to the black Northwestern University student who refused to sing a choral piece based on Walt Whitman’s poetry because, in his view, Whitman was a racist: You do ...

Three protein fragments are looking like the guilty parties in celiac disease, an intestinal ailment that affects as many as one in 133 people in the United States. These partial proteins, or peptides ...

Peruse almost any “anti-inflammatory” diet, and you’ll see gluten (or foods that contain it) on the “avoid” list? The idea that gluten is inflammatory is endorsed by many social media “wellness” ...

On a recent hot, dry August morning, farmers in northeast North Dakota were in full harvest mode. Combines rumbled through amber fields of wheat. Chaff billowed out behind the machines and wheat dust ...

For Samsung, it was the Galaxy Note 7; for Microsoft, it was the Zune; and for Coke, it was New Coke. These famous flops exemplify that failures are a part of life – even for multi-billion-dollar ...

The wedding announcements in The New York Times are, as all amateur sociologists know, a valuable source of raw data concerning prestige-display behavior among the American elite. But they do not ...