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• Couples want peace at home | Divorce case dismissals soar here since Sept. 11 (Houston Chronicle)
• A spared chapel stirs talk of miracle | St. Paul's Chapel, Manhattan's oldest public building, doesn't even have a broken window after attack on neighboring World Trade Center (The Boston Globe)

Religion and politics after the attack:

• It's not about religion | Don't be so quick to blame religion for warfare (Vincent Carroll, National Review Online)
• Talibans and the Pope's concern | We do not think religion has anything to do with the current world crisis. But the Pope does. (Vanguard, Lagos)
• Is God on our side? Or is he on theirs? | It becomes too easy to bless our causes with unqualified divine approbation only to find ourselves made over in the likeness of those enemies who have injured us (John J. Thatamanil, Los Angeles Times)
• God wills it? No, God doesn't | Must we define this conflict in the cosmic—and self-justifying—language of good versus evil? (James Carroll, The Boston Globe)
• Which God blesses America? | Have we created a convenient God in our own image or discovered the one who is there? (Joe Marek, The Orlando Sentinel)
• Faith and the secular state | The West needs to overcome its insistence that the nation-state must be secular to be legitimate (Lamin Sanneh, The New York Times)
• Church-state separation | Now more than ever, America is well served by those who say that government must not be the tool of any one religion, or even of any group of religions (The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin)
• No place for the godless in prayer offensive | We should find a place at our multicultural table for atheists and secular humanists (Sam McManis, San Francisco Chronicle)

Pacifism:

• Peace testimony | In these trying times, and those ahead, Quakers speak for nonviolent solutions (The Sun, Baltimore)
• By any name, it's still war, pacifists say | Calling campaign "Infinite Justice" is idolatry, say Christian peacemakers (The Sun, Baltimore)

More on Falwell and Robertson:

• Televangelist, fundamentalists believe their strict morality is the only answer | If there is a "holy war" in the world today, it is not between Islam and Christianity, nor Afghanistan and the United States. It is between secularism and religious fundamentalism in all its forms (Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle)
• Forgiving Falwell | As a country that's more tolerant and forgiving then ever, it's only fair to take him at his word (The Daily News, Los Angeles)
• Pat Robertson's gold | What, pray tell, does the Good Lord make of Pat Robertson's gold-mining venture in Liberia with Charles Taylor, international pariah and one of the most ruthless, greedy and terror-producing heads of state in all of sub-Saharan Africa? (Colbert I. King, The Washington Post)

Church and state:

• Keep church and state separated in Georgia | Bush's faith-based initiative spills over into state battle (Editorial, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Non-believers would get equal space on Ringgold public walls | After the City Council approved displaying framed copies of the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, they will now hang empty frames "for those who believe in nothing." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Also: Georgia town posts Ten Commandments | Councilman not worried about offending non-Christians because "because we don't have any of them here." (Associated Press)
• 'God bless America' signs prompt complaints in Oklahoma school district | Church-state separation suits threatened (Associated Press)

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September (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45