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Miroslav Volf wins $200,000 prize
Yale theologian Miroslav Volf won the $200,000 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. More information about the prize, awarded by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville, is available at the official Grawemeyer site.

• As attacks' impact recedes, a return to religion as usual | Church attendance back to normal after terror attacks (The New York Times)
• The going is tough, so they're going my way | In response to an attack on our country that was perpetrated partly in the name of religion, people have been turning to religion in droves (Henry G. Brinton, The Washington Post)
• 3,700 voices, 1 prayer: God bless America | Baptists and Pentecostals, Catholics and Episcopalians, black, white and Hispanic, sang and prayed for a divine answer to terrorism. (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
• Apocalyptic theology revitalized by attacks | Those who embrace biblical prophecy have linked the terrorist attacks to both complicated interpretations of Scripture and to a number of specific biblical references (The New York Times)
• How America's faith has changed since 9-11 | Social analysts point out that people turn to religion in times of crisis and instability. (Barna)

• Widow of September 11 hero carries on | Terrorists took Lisa Beamer's husband from her, but she refuses to forfeit her zest for life or faith in God. (USA Today)
• For Thanksgiving, they'll be dusting | Baptists to clean N.Y. homes hit by debris (The Tennessean)
• Prayer service unites two communities shattered by plane crash | Mourners gathered on Sunday to grieve for the victims of American Airlines Flight 587 (CNN)
• A tiny church vows to rebuild | Destroyed when Trade Center fell, St. Nicholas starts over as a shrine (USA Today)

• Graham termed too busy to meet with Muslims | Meeting sought over labeling Islam `an evil and wicked religion' (The Charlotte Observer)
• Franklin Graham is no Billy, and that suits him just fine | Attacking Islam as "evil" and moving headquarters out of Minneapolis is just the beginning of the Franklin era (Associated Press)
• Franklin Graham had to persuade father to make move | Approval came, but with caution (Scripps Howard News Service)
• Graham hopes displaced workers will stay with organization | Evangelist Franklin Graham assured employees of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association that they were welcome to move with the corporate headquarters (Associated Press)

• Taking a germ bullet | From 1954 to 1973 during Operation Whitecoat, the Army exposed hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists to diseases to learn about possible bioweaponry. (Los Angeles Times)

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November (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45