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SPECIALS THIS MONTH:
• Bus Safety: an expanded article, the
Chronicle's key findings and resources.
• Doug Poling editorial: third in our series
of editorials in response to 9/11 by this for-
mer CBS correspondent who is a member of
the Woodmont Hills congregation, Nashville.
• Congregational update: 9/11 relief
efforts and contributions, categorized by city
and state. E-mail to lindyadams@oc.edu.
9/11 RELIEF FUNDS:
• World Trade Canter Relief Fund,
Manhattan Church of Christ, 48 East 80th
Street, New York, NY 10021
• Pentagon Family Refief Fund, Arlington
Church of Christ, 20 North Irving, Arlington,
VA 22201
• Churchesof Christ Disaster Relief
Effort, 410 Allied Drive, Nashville, TN 37211
• Refief Fund, Springfield Gardens Church
of Christ, 144-06 Farmers Blvd., Jamaica, NY,
11434-5954
• Aid to Amerfca,Whites Ferry Road
Church of Christ, 3201 N. 7th Street, West
Monroe, LA 71291
The Christian Chronide* is published monthly by Oklahoma
Christian Umvenity at R0. Box 11000, Oklahoma Gty, OK
73136-1100. Founded in 1943, lhe Christian Chronide, is a
newspaper committed to the highest standards of journalistic
excellence and seeks to inform, inspire, and unite churches of
Christ worldwide Distributed monthly to homes for a 520
enrollment fee, lhe Christian Chronide, is available online at
www chnstianchromde org. lhe name The Christian Chronide
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All the Chronicle's coverage since 9/11 is
readily available including interviews with
Kahlil Jahshan and Kasey Pipes, previous edi-
torials by Doug Poling and links to web sites
of church and national relief funds.
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We thank all of our donors and we thank God for the
opportunities and challenges of reporting news and sharing
perspectives of our great fellowship. Our prayers are that
truth will always be our first concern, and that churches of
Christ will be one even as Jesus and the Father are one.
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two different men by their respective
friends, family and neighbors suggest two
Americas that don’t even speak the same
language” (“Review and Outlook: Sons of
Liberty.” Dec. 7, p. W21).
The words struck me like a thunderbolt
two Americas that don't even speak the
same language."
Even in times of national unity, the fault
lines are never far below the surface. How
do we keep our eyes on things greater?
It is what Fd been thinking about our
series on churches and conflict Too often
our congregations — and the cause of
Christ — suffer when Christians no longer
“speak the same language.”
I notice it in quotations from Christians
in their hometown newspapers. As secular
reporters write about the internecine
ALSO this month, see: struggles of a congregation, it is clear the
Expanded Obituaries of James Cone and two camps no longer are communicating.
Adron Doran, Letters to the Editor, Classifieds, Two languages.
Although some have recaptured the
spirit of dialogue and collaboration among
Christians, too often we talk to those in our
own camps — those like us in ways theo-
logical, social, economic or otherwise.
Maybe this phenomenon happens in
other ways, too. Some congregations have
stopped talking to their communities. Too
many have stopped talking to their sister
congregations a few blocks away.
None of this is our calling.
How do we learn to speak again? How do
we get back to one conversation? In
Scripture it is Pentecost which balances
Babel — one is the confusion of languages
and peoples and the other is the unity of
people through love and spirit-translation.
How do we learn again to speak about
issues which seem only to divide? How do
we help generations of Christians live and
work together?
I'm no less sure of my response to the
Spann/Walker scenarios than I am of how
to help churches heal their wounds or
reach out to unbelievers. Sometimes I want
to yell, “Oh, grow upr Sometimes I think
we forget our voracious enemy. Sometimes
I just want to lock all the combatants in a
• room until they “get it”
But it is serious business. I have
observed three generations of congrega-
tional behavior — my grandfathers’, my
father’s and my own. Three generations
trying to testify to their communities.
Three generations trying to resolve con-
flicts and remain focused.
Sometimes the fragile unity has held.
Sometimes the community has heard the
clarion call of Christ
Sadly, I also have watched as one congre-
gation I loved died its slow death, taking
decades until finally the remnant— a
handfill of mostly widows — deeded away
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O God, teach us to pray and be peace-
makers, Teach us the language* of love.
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