{"id":252,"date":"2010-09-12T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/ninth-sept-11-anniversary-observances-a-mix-of-grief-conflict-healing.html"},"modified":"2010-09-12T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T13:15:00","slug":"ninth-sept-11-anniversary-observances-a-mix-of-grief-conflict-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/09\/ninth-sept-11-anniversary-observances-a-mix-of-grief-conflict-healing.html","title":{"rendered":"Ninth 9\/11 Anniversary: A Mix of Grief, Conflict, Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the “rifts amid mourning,” we’ve survived another Sept. 11 anniversary <\/a>— and some of us, including four of my friends and <\/em>a new baby, even celebrated birthdays. As this New York Times story about 9\/11 birthdays notes<\/a>, this timing is more problematic than “Pearl Harbor birthdays” used to be, because our generation’s calamity is actually known by its date. Perhaps we should change that.<\/p>\n

As for me, I spent the day with family and friends at a charity dog walk in sunny Seattle. (Now that I live on the West Coast, I’m struck by the realization that most Americans in this time zone were fast asleep as the 9\/11 attacks were happening, and by the time they woke up, our world had completely turned upside down.)<\/p>\n

Here’s a round-up of religion-related 9\/11 news, including the tangential matters of Park51 and Pastor Terry Jones deciding not to hold Burn a Koran Day <\/a>after all. (By the way, I’ve heard a couple of funny-tragic jokes out of that, one noting that this would have made a good trick question for Jimmy Kimmel\/Adam Corolla’s “Germany or Florida” game<\/a>, and another invoking punchline confusion over “Korans? I thought you meant Koreans!”)<\/p>\n