Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! HEALTH Kraft is making its SpongeBob SquarePants mac & cheese slightly more natural The neon sheen of Kraft’s macaroni and cheese is kind of iconic, but it’s also just as artificial as it looks — the sauce […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! TECHNOLOGY Could this glow-in-the-dark road coating replace streetlights? Good news for the three of you cities enthusiasts who are also ravers! A British company has created a spray-on street coating that soaks up UV rays during the […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! CANADA Campaign aims to make O Canada lyrics gender neutral again A group of well-known Canadian women has started a campaign calling for more gender-neutral language in the English lyrics of ‘O Canada.’ The group wants the […]

by Robert V. Thompson Several months ago, the school clerk at the McNair School in Decatur, Georgia, was unexpectedly greeted by a gunman who approached her desk.  The first words out of his mouth were, “I don’t have any reason to live and I know I am going to die today.” Antoinette Tuff admits feeling […]

  Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! WEATHER Pakistan quake killed hundreds, created island off coast As more becomes known about the strong, , we’re hearing that: — “A small island created in the Arabian Sea by the huge earthquake that hit southwest […]

by Donna Sinclair When the National Energy Board informed me last May that I was not allowed to write them a letter about Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline, I was shocked.  I shouldn’t have been. According to author Andrew Nikiforuk, “Oil hinders democracy.” And the Board’s refusal to allow me to comment on Enbridge’s plan to […]

by Susan McCaslin Lately I’ve been learning how to see the “enemy” as a potential friend who might not be so “other” as first assumed. I became involved recently in a local grassroots effort to save an endangered mature rainforest near my home in British Columbia – a 25-acre parcel of land filled with western […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! NEWS You could adopt the kittens who shut down the New York subway The mischievous kitties who shut down a stretch of the B and Q lines in Brooklyn yesterday were finally captured, hours after MTA officials […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! INTERNATIONAL Zoo in China swaps dog for lion, hopes no one notices Visitors to a zoo in China got a rude surprise when the lion started barking. Turns out it was no lion, but just a Tibetan […]

by Bruce Sanguin This posting originally appeared on Bruce Sanguin’s blog IfDarwinPrayed.com. Visit his blog for more postings, webinars, and podcasts on Evolutionary Christianity. It’s an interesting time for progressive Christianity. Recently, I’ve been tracking a thread that was started in Australia by a hymn that was posted. Some found the language too traditional. Some […]