Today, Islam is the fastest growing religion in America. There are now more than 2,700 mosques in the United States. In 1970, there were about 100. What we have been witnessing all over Europe is now happening here.
A new roadside surveillance technology offers a glimpse of just how rapidly this world is changing. Leonardo, a major defense and security contractor, is marketing a system called SignalTrace that can detect electronic signals from devices traveling inside vehicles and correlate them with license-plate information. In other words, the camera may no longer be watching only your car.
Foreign ministers of Arab and Islamic countries gathered in Jordan on August 5 and 6 to issue yet another series of condemnations of Israel. Reading their statements, one could easily conclude that there is only one party responsible for violence, instability, and suffering in the Middle East: Israel. Hamas? Barely relevant.
Years from now, perhaps the most revealing part of this story won't be found in the legislative language. It may be found in the video. The smiles. The laughter. The applause. Because laws tell us what governments permit. Celebrations tell us what cultures value.
The heavens declare the glory of God. Jesus told us there would be signs in the sun, moon and stars. And He repeatedly told His followers to watch.
As this crisis with the Yen builds, it threatens to become an unstoppable tsunami which could end up ripping through global markets and creating an epic financial meltdown.
There are difficult passages in Scripture that deserve careful study, historical context and humility. But there is a growing tendency in progressive Christianity to approach those passages with an entirely different assumption: if Jesus does not conform to modern ideological expectations, perhaps Jesus Himself was wrong.
Parents preparing to send their children back to college this fall might want to spend a little less time studying dorm-room dimensions and a little more time studying the course catalog.
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed a new mutual-defense agreement that does far more than promise closer military cooperation. Are we witnessing the early formation of a Muslim NATO--and if it expands, could Israel eventually become one of the threats around which it unites?
New survey data is further confirming an alarming trend of increased loneliness, social isolation, and addictions to pornography and gambling among young men in the U.S., all while grappling with economic concerns.
Companies are no longer merely determining wages, schedules and working conditions. Many now take explicit positions on some of society's most divisive moral questions. That creates an unavoidable conflict.
The widening gap between Jerusalem and the international community over how to proceed in Gaza continues with growing concern in Israel that Hamas is simply buying time and will not abandon it's vision of destroying Israel.