BYU Bottoms List of Party Schools

Brigham Young University is the nation’s most sober party school, according to a survey of 100,000 college students nationwide. The title of No. 1 party school typically garners the most attention in the Princeton Review’s annual ranking of America’s...

‘Dust to Dust’ Burials Gain Ground

Most Americans will undergo a standardized funerary ritual: embalming to slow decomposition, placement in a sleek coffin, and burial in a manicured graveyard, marked by a slab of granite or marble. Cremation has been an alternative for years, but another option is...

Catholic Bishops Revise Movie Ratings

A new movie classification is forthcoming from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The conference’s Office for Film and Broadcasting announced Aug. 6 that one of its movie classifications—”A-IV: adults, with reservations”—will become...

Americans Turn Away From TV News

TV news viewers are decreasing—despite significant events on domestic and international fronts. “American soldiers are dying in Iraq almost daily, questions are continuing to swirl around the Bush administration’s case for the March invasion and United...

SBC Agency Silent on Ten Commandments Dispute

Media coverage of his legal battle to keep his Ten Commandments monument in his state’s judicial building has propelled Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore into one of the nation’s highest-profile Southern Baptists. Moore, a Baptist layman, has hinted he might...