ORLANDO (AP) — An investigation by Florida authorities unsealed Monday found there were no credible threats to a teenager who ran away from her Ohio home because she said she feared for her life after converting to Christianity from Islam. ...more

September 14, 2009

President Barack Obama called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims" during a speech Thursday in Cairo. Some topics he addressed: ...more

June 5, 2009

Last year at this time I wrote a short piece about the 9-11 Remembrance happening at the Heron's Garden. I did not say anything about that date but I will this year. ...more

September 12, 2008

A former Iranian president has said exporting violence to other countries is "treason" against Islam and Iran's 1979 revolution, an apparent accusation that the country's hard-line rulers are engineering unrest abroad. ...more

May 4, 2008

After the U.S. House approved measures supporting the Hindu holidays and the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, felt Christianity was being overlooked. ...more

December 21, 2007

The separation of church and state is not meant to expel God from our schools or government functions. Our founding fathers established that separation so that no particular branch of organized religion could force their way of worshipping God to be the only way. One of the reasons immigrants came to the United States was so that they could be free to worship as they pleased. Separation of church and state simply guarantees that no one branch of religion, be it Protestant, Catholic, Islam, Buddhist or any of the worlds many other religions, is sanctioned by the state. To include prayers or rites from one of these religions in our schools and not include similar prayers from all of them has the effect of the state promoting that one religion. ...more

December 1, 2007