Surviving 9/11: Katherine Slachinski’s Narrow Escape
Katherine Slachinski, 71, survived the World Trade Center collapse after choosing the north stairs during the 9/11 attack. Her wartime memories of Belgrade and prior tower bombings shape her calm in the stairwell and haunting guilt after emerging uninjured. Psychologists explain leap decisions as a pursuit of control in terror. The piece reflects on fear, mortality, faith, and living fully despite danger.
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Katherine Slachinski
Two World Trade Center
Katherine
Belgrade
World Trade Center
The
New Yorker
Twin Towers
Where is the church amongst Wall Street greed
David Waters critiques church leaders and theologians for tolerating corporate greed amid Wall Street excess. Alan Greenspan warns of avarice in the 1990s while Enron and WorldCom executives attend church. Civil rights voices urge pulpit action against profits as the church holds billions in market investments and faces moral questions about wealth and wellbeing.
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Wall Street
Brother Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
Federal Reserve
Senate Banking Committee
Greenspan
Ken Lay
Enron
First United Methodist Church
Houston
Steve Wende
United Methodist News Service
Bernie Ebbers
WorldCom
Easthaven Baptist Church
Brookhaven
Miss
Bendon Ginn
Jackson Clarion-Ledger
Walter Wink
Adam Smith
Wink
Joseph Lowery
Indianapolis
Lowery
Jim Wallis
Sojourners Magazine
Musings on faith and doubt from historic religious voices
Jaletta Albright Desmond, religion editor for the Daily Telegraph, surveys quotes from Spurgeon to Augustine. The piece explores faith, doubt, and the search for meaning through insights by C. S. Lewis, Blaise Pascal, and other thinkers, framing questions of why God and how belief shapes life.
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C.S. Lewis
Jaletta Albright Desmond
The
Daily Telegraph
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Bottonline.com
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D. Min
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Frederick Buechner
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