Next week I will be in Hanoi, Vietnam with a dozen or more teachers from NorthWood Church where I pastor in Dallas, Texas as they will be working on education projects at the National University of Vietnam. I love Hanoi: the sights, smells, everything about it. I’ll hang out with lots of my Vietnamese [...]
…If government officials were to reject or specially burden plans for mosques or other Islamic institutions because of their religious affiliation, it would violate both the Constitution and federal statutory law. This would be true whether the discrimination was plain to see or whether it lurked behind objections about things like traffic, aesthetics, and noise. [...]
My family was spared the worst of 9/11/01 — but it felt like a close call. My brother was midair on a trip back from Europe, set to land at John F. Kennedy Airport later that day. My father was waiting for him in Manhattan, and my mother and I were in the suburbs of [...]
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