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WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN FROM OUR PAST?

September 11, 2019

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

Eighteen years ago today, the Executive Board of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (now Tennessee Baptist Mission Board) was preparing for its September meeting. Before it started, however, news of the terrorist attacks on Washington, D.C. and New York City began to spread.

People stood around a television set in the building and watched the horror unfold.

Then TBC executive director James Porch observed that “our world, our state, your hometown and mine have changed. It will never be the same again.” Describing the events of the day as “this generation’s Pearl Harbor,” Porch asked, “Can this nation become one under God? I hope that we will.” And, for a very brief time, we did. [Read more…]

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