Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero

Thursday, 21 December 2006 by Paul Dubuc.

I missed its first airing on PBS so, at my brother’s suggestion, I recently checked out a video tape of the Frontline special “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” from the public library and watched it. I’ve seen other programs related to the events of 11 September 2001, but this one is particularly interesting to me because it deals with the role that religion played in those events and in the lives of those who were most effected by them. Questions that many Americans considered abstract, theoretical or of little relevance suddenly became very real and important on that day. This presentation is very well done and is worth watching and thinking about. So I’ve been thinking about it since watching it. I’ve thought quite a bit about the questions it raises before that Sept. 11 and in the years since. Read the rest of this entry »

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