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• At Ground Zero, a Place to Recall a Lost Era By David W. Dunlap. The New York Times. 8/29/2005. Close to the heart but far from public consciousness, the World Trade Center Memorial Museum - where visitors will be immersed in history in the very crucible where it unfolded - is beginning to take form.

• Ground Zero Museum Workshop By Gary Marlon Suson. At Ground Zero Museum Workshop, you will see striking photographic images, artifacts from the recovery that tell a story, items worn by recovery workers, actual tools that were used to dig with and rare, video footage from inside the WTC site displayed on large screen and in surround sound. It is a small space; no more than 10-15 people per thirty minutes allowed, but it packs a very strong emotional wallop.

• Commemorating the anniversary of September 11, 2001 Resources for prayer, worship, education, and reflection  from the Mennonite Central Committee Resources for worship.
• Faith Is Being Open: A Hymn for Use in Commemoration of the Anniversary of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks by David J. Ourisman This hymn by David J. Ourisman was written for use in services of worship and commemoration of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Its positive and hopeful message takes the theme of the lectionary's epistle lesson for September 1: "repay no one evil for evil." The composer has given permission for the hymn to be used and duplicated freely. All copies should contain the composer's copyright notice.
• Online Resources for Sept. 11 Observances by David Wilkinson. Ethics Daily. 08-28-02 Links to Sept. 11 resources, with a sampling of items available (many as downloadable PDFs)
• 9/11 Service of Remembrance: Anniversary and Healing Service by Daniel Benedict, Worship Resources Director and Director for the Christian Initiation Project for The General Board of Discipleship of The United Methodist Church. 2003 The resources cited here are from United Methodist sources, but any tradition will be able to find parallel resources in their own hymnals and worship books. Also see: Remembering 9-11 and Great Thanksgiving: Remembrance/Anniversary of 9/11Copyright © 2002 Heather Josselyn-Cranson. Used with permission. Adapted from "A Service of Word and Table I" Copyright © 1972, 1980, 1985, 1989. The United Methodist Publishing House. Used with permission.

• Muslims Voice Outrage After 9/11  By James Browning. 09-10-02 A year after the events of 9/11, it is still the extremist Muslim most often pictured in American media. Terrorist groups like Hamas and al Qaeda are on center stage, while the peaceful, hard-working, community-oriented Muslims in places like Kansas City are largely ignored....The voices of mainstream Muslims are available in their own publications, on the Internet if one looks, and even sometimes in the popular media. Their voices speak of outrage at the events of 9/11, of the need to focus on Islam’s core values, of passion for peace and justice, and of concern about discrimination.
• Columnists Respond to 9/11: Part 1 and Part 2. 09-10-02  By EthicsDaily.com Staff. 09-09-02 EthicsDaily.com recently posed the following question to its columnists: “Has the world changed since 9/11? If so, how?”
• FRONTLINE: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero  Where was God on Sept. 11? What is the nature of evil? Would the world be better off without religion? Or is religion our last refuge?
• September, 2002: Sparse Words from the Journey  by Ronald S. Kraybill. Ron Kraybill is professor of conflict studies in the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. From 1989 to 1995 he lived in Cape Town as a trainer in conflict resolution at the Centre for Conflict Resolution and advisor to the South African National Peace Accord; recently he spent 10 months in India working with conflict between Muslims and Hindus. In this writing, he shares things he grieves, gives thanks for, and prays for this anniversary.
• Religion and the War Against Evil  by Harvey Cox. Dec. 24, 2001. Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war, stir up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, "I am a warrior." --Joel 3:9-10.... We as religious thinkers must stop simply making nice about this age of ecumenism, interfaith dialogue and fuzzy feelings among priests, imams and rabbis. We need to take a step toward candor. In response to a secularized intelligentsia, at least in the West, we have tried too hard to put a positive face on religion, when the truth is we know that all religions have their demonic underside.
• September 11, 2001: Continuing Religious Relections  The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Already active in the public square on a number of different fronts – from the faith-based initiative to the death penalty to stem-cell research – religious communities are uniquely situated to lend guidance and insight as the nation responds to and recovers from the events of September 11.
• The Real Spiritual Impact of 9/11  By Steven Waldman and the Staff of Beliefnet. At first, it looked like 9/11 was having an enormous spiritual impact. Atheists, "seekers," lapsed Catholics, secular Jews and seemingly everyone else poured into churches and synagogues.... Church attendance went back to normal, and polls began to indicate that people were no more likely to pray, read the Bible or attend worship services than before. Nine out of ten Americans reported that 9/11 had "no lasting impact on their faith," according to a study released this week by Barna Research.
• Grieving as Sacred Space: How these anxious and ambiguous days might offer up the most holy of gifts. by Richard Rohr, OFM The images we now possess since Sept. 11 are archetypal and unforgettable to the psyche no matter how you interpret them: Towers of Babel. The Titanic that could not be destroyed. David against Goliath (a Fifth World country successfully attacking Numero Uno). The implicit connotation of the "destruction of the temple," where 25 percent of the world’s financial institutions were represented in one place. The "Frankenstein syndrome," where something you have created comes back to attack you. Rene Girard’s scapegoat mechanism in full array. The only remaining superpower playing the victim. Whether we want to admit it or not, a war of religion, at least from the terrorist side.
• Eyes Wide Open Apocalypse grabs us by the shoulders and says, 'Look at what matters in life.' by Kathleen Norris Road rage has re-emerged, and incidents of domestic violence are said to be increasing in the face of new economic uncertainties. I suspect that we will prove ourselves to be, in the ancient biblical phrase, a "stiff-necked people," remarkably good at forgetting both our own mortality and God’s eternity....