I am a reader and I love books. I do not care whether they are digital or beautiful leather-bound masterpieces, paperback or tattered and torn, I love the art and power of books, their ability to change me. Henry David Thoreau once asked the question, “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?” I respond that I am one of that number.

I am reading Read More

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