There are no overt religious references in Superman comics. But over eight decades, he’s been viewed as a divine entity, a ...

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I suspect you can’t win when you’re a popular commercial television personality who chooses to write a serious book. If your ...

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If you are like me, you enjoyed junior high English the most when our focus was on Greek mythology. Learning about the ...

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The Texas House and Senate need to work out differences in the draft budget, a secretive process that determines winners and losers.

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The principle of church-state separation is not a myth even though those exact words don’t appear in the U.S. Constitution, ...