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On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Ever since then, the U.S. has been reeling with the social, political and emotional toll that the disease has taken. As America has continually mourned over 638,000 deaths, the divisive standpoints on vaccines, lockdowns and masks widen with […]
The John Brown University community shares connections to 9/11 and offer a Christian perspective to the day of the attacks.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Jill Gilbert recalls that life was normal. After starting the laundry, she began homeschooling each of her children. A few hours later, while she was folding laundry, the family maid walked in and told her to turn on the news. Instantly, fear started […]
Sept. 11, 2001, is a day that will be remembered not just in American history but internationally forever. Considering that terrorists hijacked four passenger jets and proceeded to unleash chaos on the United States, trying to forget such a day is impossible. Twenty years later, the day still brings back […]
Nearly twenty years after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the memories witnessed from that Tuesday morning continue to affect many of the nation’s people as the levels of fear and uncertainty have increased in recent weeks. “[I was] working at North Fourth St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was a […]
Holleigh and Mark Belvardi were in different time zones, countries, and in two completely different situations when the first plane crashed into the North Tower on the once beautiful September day. Holleigh, a five-year-old from southeast Kansas, did her usual routine of riding the bus home at noon after being […]
Twenty years later, Rich Pyres still remembers the beeping sound his pager made on his day off on Sept. 11, 2001. As a special agent for the FBI, pages were a routine part of his job. But, this page was different. “We used the code 911 for an emergency, and […]
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, producer Kristina Kendall was in New York working on a story for ABC that was due that Friday. The editing room in which she worked had multiple video screens, making it nearly impossible for Kendall to miss the footage of a plane colliding with the […]
A cool Tuesday morning in September, Dunamis Flux Ross was working concrete with a handful of others in south Minneapolis. Suddenly, a woman from across the street ran out of her house to the group of working men. She cried out to them, asking if they had heard the news: […]
On Sept. 1, 666 new laws went into effect in the state of Texas. While several of them raised discourse among Texans, Senate Bill 8, better known as “The Heartbeat Bill,” provoked heated debate all across the nation and from all kinds of groups and institutions. The bill, signed back […]