by Mariam Khan | Jun 12, 2013 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality, Topics
WASHINGTON – The century-old Church of Epiphany has hosted famous visitors from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt. But for several years it has been home to a budding relationship between two different faiths – Islam and Christianity. Every Friday at 1 p.m.,...
by Mariam Khan | Jun 10, 2013 | Topics
WASHINGTON — The gun debate on Capitol Hill is at a standstill, but the argument – ranging from expanding mandatory background checks to demands that America disarm – rages. At the forefront, an overarching concern: does a society benumbed to violence in the...
by Mariam Khan | Jun 4, 2013 | Topics
by Mariam Khan | May 29, 2013 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sixth-grader Ansun Sujoe breezed through the preliminaries in Wednesday’s second day of competition at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Ansun spelled both echt and adenoidal correctly. But the addition of vocabulary to this year’s bee tripped...
by Mariam Khan | May 29, 2013 | Topics
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Keller school district sixth-grader Ansun Sujoe attributes his good fortune — being a contestant in the Scripps National Spelling Bee — to his unshakable Christian faith and to the help of his parents. “My parents helped me, and of course … God...
