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 These are the voices of people who have known,
first-hand, that faith and trust can actually lead to the
formation of a community completely founded in altruism,
humility and love, cutting across every conceivable human
divide.These people know what such a community feels like,
because that's what our experience at Ground Zero became
for a time.
"Each chaplain,
out of respect for the person's
privacy, first asked if they would like them to pray for
them. Then they asked what their tradition was in
order to pray most meaningfully. No one refused
prayer…"
—Colonel Janet Horton, The
Pentagon Chaplaincy
Washington, D. C.
"I just wanted to do
something for what I call the
heroes inside there doing the job that really needed
to be done. I just wanted to try in my own way to
make it better for them, to make it a little easier for
them."—Anthony
Palmeri,
New York Department of Sanitation
"…when you come to
the edge of all the light you've been given, having
faith means that you take that next step, trusting that
God will either provide something for you to stand on,
or that God will give you wings to fly. Either way it's
okay. But you still have to take the step."
—The Rev. Lyndon Harris,
Priest-in-Charge
St. Paul's Chapel, New
York
from Hope:
Rising from the Destruction at Ground Zero
Other
remembrances of 9/11
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| Questions of Faith and Doubt |
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Why does God let bad things happen in
the world?
I believe suffering results from our separation from
God. He is holy, all-powerful, all-loving, all that is
good.
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As a scientist, you test your
assumptions and
beliefs. But as a Christian, you have said that you
took "a leap of faith." Why the two different paths?
Maybe they aren't that different. Both science and
faith are ways of seeking the truth. Science seeks
truth about how the natural world works, and faith
seeks answers to more profound questions such as,
Why is there something instead of nothing?, or
What is the meaning of life?, and Is there a
God?
All require a certain element of faith—you can't
be a scientist unless you have faith in the fact that
there is order in nature, and that nature will behave in
reproducible and predictable ways.
from
Speaking of Spirituality
with Dr. Francis Collins,
Director of the National Institutes of Health Human
Genome Project
 Dr. Collin's book, The Language of
God, was awarded the 2007 Book of the Year Award in Evangelism
from Christianity Today magazine and is available
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When You are Troubled by Doubt:
Guided
Prayer Podcast
Some things simply are mysteries. No amount of
investigation or scholarship can provide verification
for what is most life-giving to humans. Things like
faith, hope and love cannot be proven by scientific or
intellectual inquiry. They are true because we know
them to be true in our heart even though there is no
outward confirmation of their truth.
Other Guided
Prayers
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