All of creation is “subject to futility” and “groaning in labor pains,” this Sunday’s reading from the Letter to the Romans tells us. Whatever the relative success or futility of the United States’ last decade of warfare, one can only groan at the painful toll . . .

The word of God is trustworthy, the reading from the Book of Isaiah promises. And while the psalmist promises a "fruitful harvest,” it seems the Atlanta public school district’s . . .

In this Sunday’s gospel Jesus explains that “the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it” and is therefore able to bear much fruit. Software developed by an Israeli team is yielding fruitful results . . .

God’s words achieve the ends for which they are spoken, this Sunday’s reading from the Book of Isaiah says. Sadly in this age of cyber-crime, even the most worthy of charitable causes can fall victim . . .

The Lord has softened the land with showers so that seed can fall on good ground, says this Sunday’s psalm. A 2-year-old girl in China who plunged from a tenth-story window was fortunate to have her fall softened . . .

“The accounts we have heard . . . paint a deeply disturbing picture of systematic, targeted abuses to crush dissent.”

In 2010 a record 105,900 women in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam took the GMAT test used for business school applications, an increase that helped boost the female enrollment numbers of U.S. business schools.