In a year of faith-talking Democrats, a Muslim candidate speaks up

When an event like flooding in Louisiana takes place, media coverage shifts to a sober note. But images of destruction and heroic rescuers suggest another, disconcerting dimension to catastrophe: disaster is a form of entertainment.

Nearly half of the more than 63,000 refugees welcomed into the United States in the fiscal year 2016 so far were Muslim — with a majority of new Muslim arrivals coming from the war-torn countries of Syria and Somalia.

Nearly 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door, the largest Lutheran denomination in the U.S. has approved a declaration recognizing “there are no longer church-dividing issues” on many points with the Roman Catholic Church.

If we live in right relationship with our buildings, we can use them as incredible tools for ministry. We can use buildings as signs we are rooted and planted in our communities, and that we are not going anywhere.