On Feb. 6, 1994, Tempo brought you the uplifting saga of a couple of Evanston guys who pulled off a real-life variation of one of those absurd Hollywood scenarios-the classic...
In the January issue of Harper's magazine, writer Verlyn Klinkenborg tells of seeing hundreds of pictures of anti-abortion extremists who were photographed outside Milwaukee abortion clinics by volunteers who protect...
In a Chicago pulpit on a recent Sunday, a clergyman from Northern Ireland used the following New Testament passage to illustrate the challenge his country faces in surmounting old hurts...
Making the National Basketball Association is an extraordinary feat for anybody, especially someone who's only 6-foot-3, scrawny and unable to attain significant altitude when he propels himself off the floor...
"O ye who believe! When the call is heard for the prayer of the day of congregation, haste unto remembrance of Allah and leave your trading. That is better for...
Paul Wilkes has written a wonderful book about Judaism in this country, "And They Shall Be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congregation," published by Atlantic Monthly Press. Reviewers...
In anticipation of Christmas, Life magazine's December issue asks "Who Was Jesus?" and in reply offers the views of scholars, clergy and skeptics, some of which are reprinted below. Because...
Soon newspaper movie critics will be turning out their annual Top 10 lists. We'll start things rolling here on the religion page with our nominees for the Ross Prize. If...
God is hot these days-among people who don't normally think very much about a place for the divine in everyday life. That's the word, anyway, from several worldly sources that...