A Year in Full
Canadian poet Bliss Carmen once asked “as it a year or lives ago?” and for me, this how is how I feel about September 11th. How can it be that years have now passed? How can it be? Like most of us I can tell you exactly where I was that morning. I remember the urgent voices “you have... >Read More
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Remembering September 11th
On September 11, 2001 I said my first prayer. My son was a police officer with the New York Police Department. As I sat watching the Twin Towers burn, at first I thought that he was fine since he worked a desk job at One Police Plaza. But what if he went over to help?
“Please God,” I said, “if... >Read More
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Does God Care?
We’ve watched our TV screens in horror. The pain and agony of fellow human beings in the midst of disaster goes beyond our comprehension. We grapple with the magnitude of it. Our minds scramble to make sense of it and we simply cannot. Opinions fly from every side. “Its God’s judgment,” some say. Others say, “It’s a sign of... >Read More
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Why is There Suffering in the World?
We’ve seen the photographs of smoke and rubble where the World Trade Center used to stand. We watched in horror as a 767 airliner carefully banked and crashed straight into one of the towers. We are shaken, shocked and grieving, unable to take our eyes away from the images of smoke and ash, unable to begin to count the... >Read More
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Why does evil exist?
If God exists, why is there evil in the world? You know, this is a difficult stumbling block and question for many people. The simplest way to look at this question is to examine God’s nature and his desire for mankind. Look at the logic. God loves us and wants us to love him back. And how could we... >Read More
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In the Face of War
Annonciata Kalinijabo couldn’t hold back the tears as she updated her husband over the telephone. Rwanda was at war. Life in Kigali, the capital, was mayhem. What’s more, a cousin had just told her that Tutsi rebels were installing a military tank on the hillside near their home.
Three days earlier, on April 6, 1994, an airplane carrying... >Read More
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Surviving the Tsunami
I remember that day very clearly, that day when 186,983 people died and 42,883 went missing. People started running and screaming. My wife came to me while I was on the deck of a cabin on the Phi Phi Islands of Thailand. She told me we should go. Of course I’m the kind of guy that just rolls over... >Read More
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9/11 and You
My sister had a 9:00 a.m. appointment at the World Trade Center.
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Finding Peace
Before September 11, evil of this magnitude was impossible to think about.... >more
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