It’s pasted onto bumper stickers, typed across Facebook profiles and inseparable from condolences: Everything happens for a reason. Whether your boyfriend dumped you, your dream college rejected you, or you get caught in a traffic jam, this expression is the explanation for everything. Except, it isn’t. People break up because they aren’t compatible, college select [...]

As bombs have begun falling in Libya, the focus seems to be solidly on creating an atmosphere in which a no-fly zone can be enforced. Following a UN resolution, the old boys of NATO and company took to the skies to ensure Qaddafi’s forces can’t. But the mess of destroyed airfields and ruined satellites after [...]

A teenage boy was sold into slavery and taken away from his homeland for six years. When he finally escaped he entered a monastery to study the God he had turned to during his captivity. After years of study and work as a priest he returned the land of his captivity to teach the inhabitants [...]