The first reading this Sunday relates how the Babylonian rulers of Judah decided the prophet Jeremiah was undermining morale in the city and attempted to put him to death. Egyptian military forces decided Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi had to be cleared from their encampments in the city of Cairo . . .

Before his work is complete, Jesus informs his disciples in this Sunday's gospel, "there is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!" According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly 70 percent of Americans view a day of work at the office with negative emotions ranging . . .

The psalmist praises the Lord, who "put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God." A committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA) has run into criticism rather than praise for dropping a popular him when the song's authors refused to change a phrase about the wrath of God . . .

Jesus came “to set the earth on fire,” he alerts his disciples in this Sunday’s gospel. No matter how hot it gets out there, a new kind of “smart glass” may soon automatically darken to shield people from outdoor heat and light, thereby lowering . . .

“If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.”

About 2.5 quintillion bytes—25 followed by 11 zeros—of new data are created every day. Largely due to mobile devices, 90 percent of the world's digital data has been created in the past two years.