Monthly Archives: August 2011

Today’s NEW YORK TIMES carries a story out of the White House about propriety at 9/11 observances: WASHINGTON – The White House has issued detailed guidelines to government officials on how to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 … Continue reading →

Photo is  of the cradle/chalice that will hold ashes for the 9/11 Ashes to Hope interfaith service at the Kirkland Performance Center. At our interfaith planning meeting, I asked for volunteers to take on a variety of tasks. One person … Continue reading →

Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, reporters at The New York Times, armed with stacks of homemade missing-persons fliers, began interviewing friends and relatives of the missing and writing brief portraits of their lives to create “Portraits of Grief.”[NYTIMES … Continue reading →

We’re doing a 9/11 service – again. Here’s why. (Water communion/Ingathering will wait another week.) Over the years the church has worked closely with the local Muslim congregation including shared facilities, rental space, blood drives, women’s spirituality seminar, joint men’s … Continue reading →

Clemson 911 poster

One measure of the psychological impact of 9/11 is this: At least 10,000 firefighters, police officers and civilians exposed to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder, and in a kind … Continue reading →

The dominant narrative about 9/11,2001, is that the event proved the existence of evil in the world, that there is an escalating conflict between the West and some undetermined portion of Islam, and that we are moving toward an apocalyptic … Continue reading →

From RELIGIOUS DISPATCHES: When the mass nonviolent movements that brought down longtime U.S.-backed dictators in Tunisia and Egypt this year captured the world’s attention, The Progressive’s managing editor Amitabh Pal joked that it made his new book, “Islam” Means Peace: … Continue reading →

A number of us – UU ministers-  were serving as interim ministers around the country at the time.   I, (Frank Carpenter) was serving First Parish in Chelmsford, MA. The church renting to a Shiite congregation at the time and had … Continue reading →