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xiii, 274 p. ; 22 cm. Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION, Steven Waldman ix -- CHAPTER 1: A CALL TO ACTION-THE SPIRITUAL -- CHALLENGE 1 -- Awake from Your Slumber, Bishop T. D. Jakes, 2 * No Future without -- Forgiveness, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, 8 * Twin Towers Viewed -- from a Western Minaret, Michael Wolfe, 14 * What Is the Proper -- Response to Hatred and Violence? Neale Donald Walsch, 17 -- What the Buddha Knew, ChristopherLargent, 22 * To Pray for Peace -- Is to Pray for War, the Reverend Forrest Church, 27 * -- Breathe and Remember God, Kabir Helminski 32 -- CHAPTER 2: WHERE WAS GOD? 37 -- Don't Tell Me We Should Not Blame God, Rabbi David Wolpe, 38 * -- Where Was God? the Reverend Andrew M. Greeley, 42 * Is America -- Being Punished for Its Sinfulness? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 45 -- God Made Us Moral Agents, Charles Colson, 48 * God Was Where -- God Chose to Be, Kathleen Norris, 50 * The Theistic God Is Dead, -- Bishop John Shelby Spong, 54 -- CHAPTER 3: SEEDS OF GRACE 61 -- Rest in Peace, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, 62 * -- Father Mike Went Ahead to Greet Them All, -- Steven McDonald, 68 * A Gospel Cantide of Good Tuesday, -- Father Edward Hays, 72 * What Can We Do but Pray? -- Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), 75 * Do It Again, Lord, Max -- Lucado, 76 * Seeing God in My Neighbors, Sharon Linnea, 78 * -- Prayer of Protection, Colleen Zuck, 83 * A Priest on the Front Line, -- the Reverend Lloyd Prator, 87 * Bright, Brighter, Brightest, -- Sri Chinmoy, 90 * The Root of Love, Paul Ferrini, 90 -- CHAPTER 4: EVIL AND THE ENEMY 95 -- What I Would Say to Osama bin Laden, Thich Nhat Hanh, 96 -- The Evil over which We Must Triumph, Daisaku Ikeda, 105 -- The Mystery of Evil, the Reverend Billy Graham, 107 -- The Goddess of Democracy: A Sacred Archetype to Heal the -- World, Thorn Hartmann, 112 * The Candle and the Closet, -- Rushworth M. Kidder, 119 * The New Face of the Enemy, -- Sam Keen, 122 * Call Evil By Its Name, Tom Bethell, 126 * -- Why Does God Allow Evil? Pastor Rick Warren, 130 -- CHAPTER 5: THE QUESTION OF ISLAM 133 -- Is Islam Violent? Karen Armstrong, 134 * What Would -- Muhammad Say about Terrorism? Alex Kronemer, 141 * Finding -- the Voice of Islam, IngridMattson, 143 * I'm an American Muslim- -- And I'm Afraid, Rhonda Roumani, 147 * Muslim Americans: A -- Prayer, Imam Izak-El Mu'eed Pasha, 150 -- CHAPTER 6: THE DESIRE FOR JUSTICE 153 -- Heal the World: A Multifaith Response to an Assault on Our -- Humanity, Arthur Magida, 154 * The Morals of Might: -- How Do We Respond without Stooping to the Terrorists' Level? -- Gregg Easterbrook, 155 * A War against Terrorism Is Moral, -- Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, 160 * The Anger Trap: We Cannot -- Become the Image of What We Pursue, Rodger Kamenetz, 161 -- The Christian Criteria for Retribution, Richard Land, 164 -- Restore Our Souls, Denise Breton and Steve Lehman, 167 -- Yielding to Hate Gives Victory to Terrorists, His Eminence -- Bernard Cardinal Law, 173 * Is Forgiveness Possible? -- Johann Christoph Arnold, 175 * Vengeance is the Lord's -- (But Something in Me Wants to "Bomb the Hell out -- of Them"), the Reverend Mary Lynn Tobin, 180 -- CHAPTER 7: TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS 185 -- The Pope's Message, Pope John Paul II, 186 * A Letter to the -- President, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 187 * A View from -- the Hindu Heart, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswamil, 188 -- What Would Jesus Do? David P. Gushee, 190 * What Would -- Buddha Do? Lama Surya Das, 195 * Mitakuye Oyasin, Michael -- Hull, 198 * What Would the Goddess Do? Starhawk, 203 -- What Would Moses Do? Joshua WolfShenk, 206 -- CHAPTER 8: FEAR AND VULNERABILITY 211 -- In Praise of Small Ambitions, Hugh O'Neill, 212 * We All Live in a -- Sukkah, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, 214 * Harbingers of Hope, Suzy Yehl -- Marta, 218 * Resiliency in the Face of Fear, Dan Baker, 220 -- What Do You Tell Children? Jean G. Fitzpatrick, 224 * Protecting -- Our Relationships, Hugh and Gayle Prather, 225 * Processing a -- National Tragedy, the Reverend Bill Hybels, 230 -- CHAPTER 9: REPENTANCE 239 -- Is This an Apocalyptic Event? Jerry B. Jenkins, 240 -- Our Estrangement from God, Rabbi Michael Lerner, 243 -- Repent, Frederica Mathewes-Green, 245 -- Breaking the Cycle, Paul Rogat Loeb, 248 -- CHAPTER 10: FROM THE ASHES 253 -- God Still Answers Prayers, Bruce Wilkinson, 254 -- An Early Attempt at Gratitude, Brother David Steindl-Rast, 256 -- Loving-Kindness, Sharon Salzberg, 260 * What Good Can Come -- from this Evil? the Reverend William Webber, 265 * Deny Them -- Their Victory, Interfaith Statement, 269. collected by the editors of Beliefnet. n-us--- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Terrorism Religious aspects Christianity Terrorism Religious aspects Terrorism United States BT736.15 .F76 2001 291.4/32 157954603X 9781579546038 2001277969 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol052/2001277969.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001277969.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol052/2001277969.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001277969.html MZI 011211 20191127152852.0 12617093