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September 8, 2010
Title: ONE MOSQUE PROTEST TOO MANY: Will Scheduled Event Create a Divide Among Ground Zero Defenders Segment 1 of 2
Topic: Ground Zero Mosque
Discussed by Sarah Cunningham
with Picking Dandelions: a Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds
Sarah Cunningham, author, high school teacher and leader of a team of
first-responders to the crumbled towers on 9/11, responds to the two-sided
debate about the Ground Zero Mosque.
She contends that it is all about the simple virtue of respect. While Americans
should respect the freedoms of their own Constitution that allows for
construction of the mosque, those behind the mosque should respect the sanctity
of the site, the wishes of the victims’ families and that of most Americans.
1. The towers were attacked by terrorists using planes as weapons. The towers
crumbled. You arrive with a team of first responders. Tell us about that
morning…
2. Picking Dandelions: a Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds revolves around your
experience of leading a disaster relief team to the site while the dust of the
towers’ collapse was still in the air. Back then, was it possible to imagine
that Muslims would dare to want to build a monument to their god near the site
of the terrorist attack that killed over 3,000 souls?
3. Sarah Cunningham, author, high school teacher and leader of a team of
first-responders to the crumbled towers on 9/11, is discussing the two-sided
debate about the Ground Zero Mosque. As mosque protesters prepare to load
up with fire and bullhorns on the anniversary of 9/11 itself, do you fear some
patriots are defending the “sacred ground” without honoring the sacred day?
4. Have the Mosque protesters lost sight of the bigger picture: the
importance of defending all freedom lovers against Islamic extremist aggression which is focused on destroying the very freedoms we take for granted in America, and much of the West? (Continued .....)
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Title: ONE MOSQUE PROTEST TOO MANY: Will Scheduled Event Create a Divide Among Ground Zero Defenders Segment 2 of 2
Topic: Ground Zero Mosque
Discussed by Sarah Cunningham
with Picking Dandelions: a Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds
5. Referencing Picking
Dandelions: a Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds, does God intend for
us, even in life’s hardships, to always look for Eden, to always took towards
heaven?
6. On 9/11, you contend that America’s ‘goodness’ was expressed by the
many volunteers, rescue and military personnel who responded at Ground Zero, at
the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania and across this great land. Our nation came
together in pain. Would you hate to see some of that goodness and cooperation be
reversed because of disagreements over a building site?
7. What should happen with the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero?
8. PICKING DANDELIONS: A SEARCH FOR EDEN AMONG LIFE’S WEEDS is
a candid and personal account of outgrowing laissez-faire Christianity, moving
into mature faith, and realizing that a God-following person is a changing
person. In Picking Dandelions, you explain how coming to religion through the
front door—rather than through a weeping, born-again conversion—can make it
difficult to understand how faith changes life. Sarah, is it hard for most to
grasp why faith changes lives?
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