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It’s 9/11 and the events eight years ago are on most people’s minds. Many Christians will be praying today, as my wife wrote in her devotional. What will those prayers consist of? What is a Christian response? Shortly before the second gulf war began, I wrote an essay simply titled Revenge! I want to quote…
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