The tenth anniversary of September 11 is in just four months. Plans for commemorative ceremonies, gatherings, and memorial services are underway. But how we understand 9/11 is still far from certain ten years later.
Fears and pain remain; two (or, arguably three) wars are still underway; misconceptions and generalizations about Islam remain pervasive. We also lack a physical space in which to permanently memorialize the 3,000 victims of the attacks at the World Trade Center — adding to the sense that there has not been, and perhaps can never be, closure from 9/11.
Braving the fraught but often unspoken topic of 9/11 and its commemoration, Odyssey Networks convened a day-long gathering on “9/11: The Conversation We Never Had,” focusing a great deal on the role that religious communities can play in memorializing
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