Aggregating the Aggregator: An Alltop 9/11

The Day After.

Here’s what others — my fellow Alltop members — in the Christian blogosphere had to say…Choose a few…they’re listed in an order in which they struck me as relevant or unique…

• The blog, Five Stones deals with the classic “Where was God?” question
• Adrian Warnock has one of the best summaries of all that the day means
• Bob Roberts, Jr. with an all-too-short collection of five lessons from 9/11; sample: “Lesson #3 – sometimes our theology reinforces prejudice and when we look at prejudice we have to examine the accuracy of our theology.”
• Counterpoint Cafe has a great quotation from Russell Moore’s The Gospel at Ground Zero
• Darryl Dash quoted Charles Spurgeon
• Lawrence Wilson: “…in a world where nothing seems as secure as it once did, there is a reality that never changes.”
• Ron Edmondson devoted the full week to 9/11, so no specific link
• If 9/11 happened now: What would it be like in a social media world?
• Matthew Lee Anderson notes how we make the day subjective by asking, “Where were you when you heard about…?”
• Dave Zimmerman – “What scatters us wounds us, what wounds us scatters us…”
• R. C. Sproul notes that Americans are in the same position as the prophet Habakuk: Our own people chastened by a foreign power
• (Clark Bunch, while not on Alltop, has something similar with the piece, Lord of History)
  
• Ron Moore posts a huge collection of video interviews
• Matthew Starnier talks about planning a Sunday worship for 9/11/11
• Links to what other worship leaders prepared for Sunday (see comments)
• Peggy Rosenthal talks to a parent who lost a son that day
• Heath Davis lost a cousin
• Dr. D.: “The fact is the world is a better place because of the responses of Christians to people in need around the world, even those who consider us to be their enemies.”
• Blog One Another has some quotations from David Ruis
• The blog post on W2W soul is from a former World Trade Center employee
• Kem Meyer worked around the corner from WTC when it happened
• Chaplain Mike closes out a whole week series on 9/11 at Internet Monk
• Tim Stevens remembers the day: “All those people–getting on a plane to do business or see loved ones or go on their honeymoon. And within minutes, their plane is turned into a missile by kamikaze pilots.”
• A link to a video remembrance produced by North Point Church
• Chuck Warnock posts his 9/11 sermon text on forgiveness
• Bible Prophecy Blog has a report on 9/11 remembrances in Israel
• The blog Mommy on Fire notes: Atheists object to the presence of the cross in a government funded memorial
• Christian Century magazine links to its own archives on the topic
• Contributors to Think Christian compare their reactions to 9/11 then to their reactions now
• Ed Stezer on the Christian presence in New York City
• Gerrard Fess reflects on leaving his home to go to New York to help
• John Piper weighs in on the terrorists’ convictions
• Naty Maso’s experience was similar to that of most of us
• Commonweal begins with the non-partisan aspect of the memorial events
• Tod Bolsinger writes his church a letter
• A collection of Twin Tower moments in cinematic history
• For Rob Shepherd, the moment intersected with a personal health panic
• Bruce Reyes-Chow on the Presbyterian ministry at the United Nations
• The Christian Gift posts a poem
• Red Letter Believers asked what your church did to commemorate the day
• Mission Network News reminds us all to see 9/11 as an opportunity to reach out to suffering believers
  

Alltop is a great way to keep in touch with what’s going on in the larger world of Christian faith. Although I don’t use it for the Wednesday Link List, I do check it several times per week. There are two different pages one is Alltop Christian and the other is Alltop Church.  (You can also use it if there’s a particular hobby or interest you have that you’d like to read more about.)

And I did not even consider the possibility of using the WordPress index. The list at that point would have been relatively endless.

…I don’t really expect many people reading this to click every one of these links; but I do want you to see one of the largest outpourings by writers on a single subject. The day that “war came to America” was a day — like the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November of ’63 or the Space Shuttle explosion in January ’86 — that touched us all in many, many different ways.  A defining moment.

…And I hope you’ll take a moment to read what Thinking Out Loud had to say here yesterday.

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