Covenant Reformed News – September 2002, Volume IX, Issue 5
This September 2002 editorial from Covenant Reformed News addresses the theological meaning of the September 11 terrorist attacks, critiquing Anne Graham Lotz's characterization of God as "saddened" and passively withdrawn from world events. The author argues from Scripture that God sovereignly governs all events, including calamities, according to His perfect will and counsel, offering a distinctly Reformed perspective on divine providence in response to national tragedy.
September 11 Earlier this month, the world remembered those who died in the terrorist attacks upon the United States on 11 September, 2001. Who can forget those images of the World Trade Center—planes flying into two skyscrapers, people jumping out of windows dozens of floors up, and finally the Twin Towers crashing to rubble with the loss of thousands of lives? Many of us relived that sad day by watching the commemorative ceremony in New York when friends and relatives descended to Ground...