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I didn't plan on writing about 9/11 this year. I wrote about it last year (and in 2001, linking to the article I tracked down last year, though my thoughts from back then are lost in a Comic Sans archive of messiness), and I assumed I wouldn't have more to say this year. But while I still believe that the September 2001 article I reposted from the vocalist of Ballydowse is the best response to the event, I think there are words to be said about our national response since then, and it is those I decided to give attention to.
Recently, the fine folks at Homebrewed Christianity started asking guests, and also listeners, to talk about the biggest challenge facing American religion.
We all know that Osama bin Laden was killed by American forces the other day.
Like many others, I've been following Egypt's revolution the past several days, and Tunisia's before it.
Since I started blogging I have planned to write something for the Martin Luther King holiday, but I'm finally getting to it this year, and want to publish today, on his birthday.
In light of Thanksgiving yesterday, Black Friday today, and the upcoming Advent and Christmas seasons, and maybe to a greater extent than normal because of the impending birth of our first child, I've been thinking about the connections between these holiday seasons, our prevailing civil religion, and injustice.
Since I started this blog in 2007, I haven't written a specific 9/11-oriented post on one of the anniversaries that have passed since then.
I have a close friend, Andy, and Andy runs in a number of different circles that give him an interesting perspective on political and religious debates.
I hadn't planned on writing anything here about the Cordoba Initiative and it's planned Park 51 Islamic Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
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