Memory and Hope
Theme:
Covenant
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
As religious scholar and theologian Walter Bruggemann counseled on September 12, 2001, in the wake of this act of terrorism, four things were required: that the people might grieve, that the people might be comforted, that the people might confront cosmic evil, and that the people might demand social analysis. Fifteen years later, have we yet done what is required of us to come to terms with September 11?