The reading from the Letter to the Colossians, one of the Easter lectionary options, encourages us to "think of what is above, not of what is on earth." With a North Korean missile launch in mind last Sunday, President Obama announced in a speech in Prague that the U.S. will embark on an ambitious plan to markedly reduce the number of nuclear weapons around the world. ...

We hear in this Sunday's psalm of stones rejected becoming cornerstones and in the gospel choices of stones moved or rolled away. Residents of the historic city of L'Aquila in central Italy are struggling to find survivors amidst mounds of stone and rubble after a powerful earthquake struck early Monday morning. ...

The Easter reading from 1 Corinthians encourages us to celebrate the paschal feast "not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." At the end of a trial in Peru designed to uncover the truth about atrocities committed by a secret police unit during the 1990s, former President Alberto Fujimori was found guilty Tuesday of mass murder and kidnapping, ...

Easter hat sales are down this year as cash-strapped consumers cut back to essentials. But one Washington, D.C.-area hat retailer is doing something about it. Andrea Bray of Andrea's Fine Hats is spearheading an effort to acquire donated "gently worn" hats ...

"I don't care about the militias anymore because they're going to kill me anyway--today, tomorrow, or the day after."

The website Twitter, which lets users post 140-character microblogs, saw a 1,374 percent jump in unique visitors between February 2008 and February this year, up to 7 million from only 475,000. Meanwhile, some celebrities, like Britney Spears and Kanye West and politician Ron Paul, are hiring ghostwriters to write Twitter feeds to their fans.