It’s unclear exactly what the program entails, but it makes big promises: guaranteed weight loss and a new life. The company does not call itself a diet. Instead, the founders prefer that Shibboleth ...

Sam Sherman of Voorhees, N.J., has an interesting question. It has to do with a story in the 12th chapter of the Book of Judges about a battle between the Gileadites, who lived to the east of the ...

Welcome to Oxford University in the era of identity politics, where students discuss “lived experience”, acknowledge their “moral complicity” and pontificate about ways to enact “systemic change”. The ...

It’s a ‘West Wing’ episode worth revisiting on Thanksgiving. I saw it for the first time just last month, so I can't exactly call it a “tradition,” but if I had a Thanksgiving-watching tradition other ...

In modern usage, a shibboleth can be anything -- a custom, tradition, pronunciation, an old wooden ship named “diversity,” etc. -- that distinguishes one group from another. EDITOR’S NOTE: The ...

Harry Potter. Pants on women. The size of your carbon footprint. Trick-or-treating. Recycling. Supporting public radio. Smoking. Home schooling. The theology of the body. What does the Church ...