Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles in 1961 and was accused of sexual harassment decades later Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The Earth was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The first signs of life on our planet emerged soon after (in terms of the Earth's history). However, the conditions back then were very different ...

In early 2015 I was pretty frustrated with my career. Just a year earlier I said goodbye to my entrepreneurial aspirations and took a job at an IT-research firm in London. Normally, that’s a good ...

Scientists report that they have built a living "minimal cell" with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and ...

A developer wants to build a senior assisted living community on a portion of the Institute in Basic Life Principles’ property on Ogden Avenue just east of Route 83 in Hinsdale. Estimated to cost $95 ...