A 9/11 Remembrance: Why I Honor the Flag, the Anthem, and the Constitution

A 9/11 Remembrance: Why I Honor the Flag, the Anthem, and the Constitution

When my father was a young boy in India, he dreamed of someday going to America—a remarkable place of opportunities. In the 1940’s in a newly independent India, that idea seemed as preposterous as going to the moon. But in 1969 America put a man on the moon. And just two years later in 1971, my father immigrated to the United States from India. He was 27 years old and came to this country on a student visa. He had never left his native country and only had a few dollars to make his way in a new country.

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Reaching The Unreachable

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Reaching The Unreachable

Imagine you’re a 21st century Christian missionary: Where on this vast earth would you go to bring the word of Christ? For Pastor Mike Goodyear of Pathways Church in Fair Oaks, California and his congregation, the answer is simply 10-40 degrees latitude. Within these geographical latitudes is drawn a rectangle from longitude 15 degrees west of the meridian at Greenwich England to 120 degrees east of the meridian. What lies within this rectangle is the African continent’s northern half, the middle east, along with southwest and southeast Asia and much of China. As Pastor Mike, as he is affectionately known points out, this area was chosen because we wanted “to go where the need is greatest.” He explains that about 2 billion people live within this rectangle area who “don’t know Jesus.”

A Shared Commitment to Addressing Violence & Disparity

A Shared Commitment to Addressing Violence & Disparity

This week Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were shot and killed by police officers while they were being apprehended. Both were black men. While they are not the only people killed by police this year, they represent the next in a series of recent killings that have sparked political concern and racial outrage. The individual incidents have distinct sets of circumstances, but they also have certain key issues for review. The central issue is not so much whether the police officers has the right to use force, since in many of these instances they do. The issue is more whether the use of deadly force was necessary. And more precisely, the key issue is whether the race of the person being apprehended affected the police officers likelihood to use deadly force.

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Backlash Against a Borderless Europe

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Backlash Against a Borderless Europe

Since the 1950s, European leaders have pursued the objective of political and economic integration through the Treaties of Rome, culminating with the Schengen Agreement, which allowed people and commerce to move freely within 26 European Countries without internal border controls. That historical objective is being severally tested as migration of large numbers of refugees from war torn areas of the Middle East and North Africa to Europe continues unabated. Concurrently, European jihadist sympathizers journey unimpeded through European nations to join the Middle East fighting. Now, a backlash is occurring among many citizens of Europe’s nation-states as they confront the trade-off that allows for the free movement of people whose culture, value and customs oftentimes conflict with the majority of those residing within these European nations.

Men Without a Country

Men Without a Country

The deluge of refugees escaping Syria’s war torn areas now increasingly seek shelter, safety, and economic opportunity within Europe’s more affluent nations, as the conflict enters its fifth year with no end in sight. At the outset of the fighting, displaced residents fled to nearby borders of Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, which continue to hold the vast majority of the estimated 4 million Syrian refugees. However, these refugee camps were never intended to provide prolonged assistance for so many. Since they cannot go back, many are now choosing to go forward, with Europe being the destination of choice.

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