Voices of Goodwill
As many of you know, I had the chance to go to New York as a disaster relief worker directly after the September 11th attacks.
So earlier this week, as plans for the Islamic Cultural Center was released, the headlines coming out of New York City were making me squeamish.
Pastors hating on the public airwaves. Taxi drivers getting stabbed. The FBI issuing hate crime warnings.
So I asked a few friends--both real world and virtual-- if they'd join me in expressing a simple show of ...
Beyond the Rubble
I remember the exact minute a slow-moving, unmarked van transported me from the supply warehouse to Ground Zero. When I stepped out of it, it felt like I stepped out of my childhood idealism and into the only war zone most people in my generation had ever seen.
It was like every disaster movie I'd ever seen rolled into one, only sickeningly real. A mammoth skyscraper lay in shambles. Lives had been lost and more hung in the balance. And every agency I'd ever seen on TV--FEMA, the ...
A Christian Response to the Ground Zero Mosque
Today, in my article at Q, I had the chance to pull together some comments about the plans to build an Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero.
If you're interested in thinking through a Christian response to this development, you might want to mosey on over there.
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