“That’s my home.” My heart whispered this thought 15 years ago while looking down at the streets of Pakistan. The plane had just left for New York from Lahore and I was glued to the window, teary eyed. If leaving my country was distressing, not knowing if I would ever return was agonizing. And all [...]
In 1630, John Winthrop sailed across the Atlantic Ocean seeking sacred ground. Hounded in England, the Puritans would be free to worship as they wished in the New World. A footnote in someone else’s story over there, they would author their own destiny here. But Winthrop didn’t expect the soil here to contain special sacraments. [...]
This is the soft launch of Religious Freedom USA. Religious Freedom USA is a movement of religiously-diverse Americans who feel compelled to mobilize in support of religious freedom for all Americans. This freedom has come been put at risk by protests of 51 Park Place, a proposed Muslim community center in lower Manhattan.
This is not a [...]
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