Why should one word only, even, should be able to move the same way through centuries and across borders, appearing in the synagogues, the churches and the mosques, hardly changed at all in form? One ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. Mark Katrick is a guest columnist for the Newark Advocate and an ordained minister. Some of my most memorable and ...

We come across the word "amen" throughout the Old and New Testaments. Using Hebrew letters, אמן, or ἀμήν in ancient Greek, it's a word that's actually more than 2,500 years old! In Hebrew, it shares ...

In the 1950s, sociologists came up with the term “homophily” (from the Greek words “homo” for same and philos for “love”) to explain our tendency to seek out people who are similar to ourselves. And ...