Language

The word "advent" derives from the past participle form of venire, the Latin word for...

Hillary Clinton and her organization are fending off the threat from the left by accusing...

Guess what the most-spoken language is projected to be by 2050, then see the answer...

Hermann Sasse was contending with Nazi Germany, but his words about how "the lie" kills...

Timothy Richard Hunt is a biologist who won the Nobel Prize.  A faculty member at...

I've read two articles on Germany's hard line against bailing out Greece that blame in...

Justice Kennedy, in his opinion establishing gay marriage, did affirm the right of religious people...

Lost in the tumultuous week of Supreme Court rulings over Obamacare and gay marriage was...

To find a right to abortion in the Constitution, the Supreme Court justices in Roe...

Some words are taboo, so that when they are used they constitute the "bad language"...

Opponents of the Second Amendment, inspired by other rapid changes of public opinion, are formulating...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare, saying that the language of a  passage...

Both liberals and leftists share the goal of social and economic equality and other progressive...

Europe has gone further than the United States in embracing the new ideologies about sex,...

The strategy of abortion apologists up to now has been to employ euphemism ("pro-choice") and...

The dictionary has added a new word:  "eggcorn."  Read what it means after the jump. ...

On Trinity Sunday yesterday, I worshipped at the church of my son-in-law, the Rev. Ned...

The Barna group has data about which American cities are the most "unchurched," breaking that...

Just about everybody in politics is claiming to be a "populist" these days--leftwinger Elizabeth Warren,...

Hillary Clinton says that "religious beliefs. . .have to be changed" when they interfere with...

So what percentage of the world's 6,101 languages do you think have translations of the...

Noam Chomsky is not a conservative Christian but is rather a leftwing radical.  But in...

Kansas has banned late-term abortions that dismember the child.  Other states are considering passing the...

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on the most serious legal challenge to Obamacare so...

"Orthodoxy" means "right belief."  Now there is a new word, "orthorexia," meaning "right eating."  The...

Today is Epiphany, a day and a season in the church year that I especially...

I hope you had a big celebration last night and stayed up past midnight to...

Why do Americans say "merry Christmas," while the British and denizens of its Commonwealth say...

The Chinese government is forbidding the use of puns in state-supported media.  Alexandra Petri objects. ...

An essay in the Washington Post about the non-spontaneous riots in Ferguson, Missouri, included a...