As the morning sun illuminated his kitchen, Steve Stone poured himself a cup of coffee and picked up the local newspaper. Reading it gave him a chance to cool off after riding his bike, and the articles usually provided him with a thought or two to incorporate into the sermon he would deliver later that Sunday morning at Heartsong Church, the United Methodist congregation he had started 19 years ago in Cordova, Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis. Stone’s eyes settled on a headline at the bottom of the front page: Muslims buy land for hub in Cordova. The paragraphs underneath said that the Memphis Islamic Center was planning to build a mosque and “a sprawling community center” in his community. That’s interesting, he thought. I didn’t realize there were that many Muslims in Memphis.