9/11

“While there was a temporary rise in church attendance, the numbers soon returned to pre-9/11 levels. The immediate increase in attendance did not translate into a sustained commitment to religious practices or beliefs.” - Church Answers

“[Khalid Shaikh] Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.” - BPNews



Podcast: “In the second episode of the Remembering 9/11 series, Sarah Zylstra tells the rest of Christina and Brian Stanton’s story—a return to an apartment littered with scraps of World Trade Center papers, an attempt to cope on their own, and an encounter with a church called Redeemer Presbyterian.” - TGC



Twenty years after terrorist attack, the spiritual needs of survivors continue.



“It’s hard to believe that this year’s freshman class doesn’t remember anything about 9/11. Those arriving at college in the past few weeks were three or four when the Towers fell.” - Kevin DeYoung



“In these stories of loss, trauma, redemption, and eternal hope, we see that God was, is, and always will be at work—even in the darkest moments.” - TGC



9/11 17 years on:




• Where were you?

• How did you hear about?

• Did it change your life?

• The lives of your children?

• And more






“I remember the emotional feel of that morning. No one knew what was going on. How many planes were out there? How many might come down? And as my wise-cracking camera man noted: maybe they have guys with AK 47s hidden all over D.C.” - Intellectual Takeout



That this was an assault upon our society, whatever its ostensible capitalist and militarist “targets,” was again thought too obvious a point for a clever person to make. It became increasingly obvious, though, with every successive nihilistic attack on London, Madrid, Istanbul, Baghdad, and Bali.

http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18543 ]Former Wall Street Journal editor Melanie Kirkpatrick escaped 9/11…saw in New York “that religion and people’s reliance on God in a time of crisis was very evident.”