Reaching for the right words (Image: Jean-Luc Chapin/Agence VU/Camera Press) LAST month, a New York court ruled that Hercules and Leo, two research chimps at Stony Brook University, had no right to legal personhood. But the fact that such a case made it through the courts at all shows our new willingness to consider the issue of personhood for other species.

Well, music is not a coincidence. Its a basic feature of life itself. Humans didn't essentially invent music. We just re-discovered it and formulated it acco...

I'm about to become a father. And among the many questions racing through my mind is an odd one I can't yet answer. It's not the existential question of whether I'll be a good dad or the basic question of whether I'll drop the baby while walking.

Four-letter words have been around since the days of our forebears-and their forebears, too. In Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, a book out this month from Oxford University Press, medieval literature expert Melissa Mohr traces humans' use of naughty language back to Roman times.

Most Christians are Christianized enough to not tell big bold lies. We know better. It is morally wrong to not tell the truth. To willfully alter the truth to something that is not the truth should not be part of any Christian's game. The difference between truth-telling and lying is easy to discern.