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Usually Weblog uses this space to comment on the day's top stories. Not today. It seems like every publication around the world is running a religion story of some sort, so Weblog spent all morning just finding the links below. Don't get lost—there's some very interesting and important stories in here. Comments and coverage roundups will return Monday.

September 11:

• Four lives: Their faith and fears | By day, they have been leaders and heroes. By night, they have fought anxiety and an incalculable sense of loss. This is the story of how a widow, a general, a key Bush adviser and Pakistan's president braved the fires of September 11 (Newsweek)
  
  
• 9/11 lessons not easily taught in classrooms | As educators struggle to find just the right tone and perspective to discuss one of the most traumatic events on American soil, some fret about the rancorous tenor of the debate over what to teach (The Hartford Courant)
  
  
• 'Let's roll,' he said. And so she has | Hero's wife makes his words resound (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Lisa Beamer may some day forgive 9/11 hijackers | But not now (Reuters)
  
  
• Earlier: Widow's book sheds more light on last moments of Flight 93 on Sept. 11 (Associated Press)
  
  
• She doesn't want to share her grief with a nation | Meet Sue Mladenik, the anti-Lisa Beamer (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Life in the new normal | Lee Jenkins preached you could be rich in life and rich in the kingdom of God at the same time. But 9/11 changed that, as it has changed so much (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• The unbelievers | The Swiss. The CIA. Israelis. Big Oil. The Antichrist, even. With Sept. 11, the politically paranoid hit the jackpot. But many of their conspiracy theories are chilling, even dangerous, and they're catching on fast (The Ottawa Citizen, Toronto)
  
  
• Spiritual leaders are still wrestling with 9/11 questions | Some find solace in Flight 93 heroes (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Church creates a memorial for its two Sept. 11 victims | Outdoor sanctuary helps parishioners reflect and grieve for lost neighbors (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A day of sacred places | New York will mourn with bells, prayers, candles, chants and "interfaith" services (Elizabeth Crowley, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• A heart, a cross, a flag | What arose from the ashes (Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• One year later: A more serious USA | What's changed since Sept. 11, besides the infamous meaning we now hear in that number? (Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• St. Sabina puts faith in Sears Tower Sky Deck on 9/11 | The parish has reserved space to pray, sing and read Scripture (Cathleen Falsani, Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Two studies raise doubts on trauma counseling's value | Analyses: Debriefings don't help, and may harm, mental health (The Washington Post)

Proposed attack on Iraq:

• Iraq crisis divides religious leaders| Some religious leaders believe that as a nation, we cannot set out to be "the world's policemen". (BBC)
  
  
• Church leaders speak against 'wicked' war | Britain's two most senior churchmen have launched separate impassioned initiatives aimed at preventing war against Iraq. (The Times, London)
  
  
• A Puritan on the warpath | The biblical zeal with which the US President is waging a moral crusade against Saddam Hussein owes much to the dissenting protestantism of America's original settlers (Tristram Hunt, The Observer, London)
  
  
• Church of Scotland warns against Iraq war | The Moderator of the Church of Scotland's general assembly has urged Tony Blair to try and prevent war against Iraq (BBC)
  
  
• The standards by which war with Iraq must be judged | A conflict on the current evidence and terms would be difficult to support (Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, The Times, London)
  
  

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September (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46