Reflections on September 11
Jim
Tebbe, Director of Urbana 03, remembers
a year ago when the September 11 attacks took place while he was in Cyprus.
Read these other reflections by several mission leaders and Urbana 2000 speakers soon after the 911 events took place:
| Marta Bennett |
Paul Borthwick |
| Susan
Cho Van Riesen InterVarsity Area Director from California on mourning and letting Jesus use you as an agent of love to those in grief around you. |
Ken Fong Asian American pastor on balancing grief, forgiveness, justice, peace and war. There's a time for everything, but timing is everything. |
| Alex Gee African American pastor in an interview about race, culture, war, economics and the West bank. |
Alec
Hill President of InterVarsity/USA on the problem of evil in the world. |
| Vinoth
Ramachandra South Asian Christian leader and author explains the non-western world's grieviances with the U.S. and calls on the American church to pare nationalism from obedience to Christ. |
George
Verwer American missions leader living in England in an open letter to George W. Bush. Call for long-term prudence in policy |
Helpful Resources
- Resources from InterVarsity Press
- Resources for your Campus
- Sojourners Magazine - Homepage
- Sojourners
Article on Israeli Apartheid,
by a Palestinian Christian, written before the bombings - ReGeneration Quarterly special issue
- Suggested prayers, Scripture
readings,
Bible studies, and songs - Help for dealing with grief and tragedy
- Help for responding on campus
- A letter from Jack Voelkel, Urbana's Missionary-in-Residence, about how we might respond
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