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What is religion? This module from our free online Bible study course, Foundations, explores the answer.

The one-size-fits-all approach to education isn’t working. What’s needed is one that capitalizes on and nurtures each child’s strengths and creativity.

The Bible talks about a kingdom of God that is not only the end of the arms industry: it suggests a state of mind completely opposed to war.

We explore several aspects of stem-cell research which have been discussed in recent publications and at two recent conferences held in San Francisco.

Children are shaped by many outside influences. Where should parents begin in reclaiming their role as authority figures and moral guides for their children?

A compromised immune system is a poor defense. Building it requires healthy habits: get plenty of sleep and exercise, manage stress and eat well.

In the wake of the 2007–09 financial crisis, a number of economists and commentators have written books to try to establish why the crisis happened.

One Israeli and one Palestinian are showing how human experience can be transcended—to the benefit of not only themselves but their world.

Over the past few decades, a glut of literature has proclaimed the need to instill self-esteem in children. How is this best accomplished?

A masterpiece is something that’s done with extraordinary skill, and a review of John Robert Wooden’s life journey suggests that this maxim was indeed a daily focus.

Apostles: First Followers and Their Faith helps establish the truth by viewing the lives of the apostles of Jesus from a more accurate perspective.

Vision asks Clive Svendsen of the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles about the current direction in stem-cell research.

What is it about human beings that makes us always want to push the limits? When it comes to the frontiers of medical science, is it possible to go too far? 

Even a creature as mundane as a cow responds to proper, respectful treatment, as Ted Forrest Fansher showed many decades ago.

Video Interview: In this interview, author Will Marré discusses what he believes to be the most critical issue in leadership today.

Deceptions, hoaxes and urban legends abound, mainly because so many people are so easily taken in by them. Here’s how you can avoid being one of them.

Here are some ways that we human beings deceive ourselves and each other, along with a few suggested remedies.

Popular references to our planet as Mother Earth, and to the natural forces that govern it as Mother Nature, bring to mind the ancient goddess Gaia.