A Pew Forum survey revealing that 24% of Americans believe President Obama is a Muslim—more than twice the number at the time of his election—is focusing attention on this administration’s odd handling of religion.

First, to the point. No, Barack Obama is not a Muslim. Yes, he practiced Islam as a child at his stepfather’s side but he did not make a confession of faith after he entered adolescence, which is Islam’s requirement. Then, as Read More

Change
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”[1]

By nature, human beings shrink from change. Change seems to stir our insecurities as it forces us from the familiar into unsettling confrontation with the new. Wrongly, we equate change with loss. Psychologists say that because we subconsciously want to return to the stability and warmth of the womb, we gravitate to the comfortable and the routine. But life is change, and true Read More

She was the largest ship in the world. In fact, she was the largest movable object man had ever made. Over eleven stories tall and almost a sixth of a mile long, she dwarfed the seaside buildings of Belfast where she first arose like a colossus and where her proud craftsmen took their grandchildren to view her beauty and contemplate her meaning for their lives. Newspapers around the world took note of her and of her Read More