The Divine Significance of 9/11

Originally a day that marked divine fulfilment, reconciliation and restitution, it now symbolises panic, misery, and terror, as well as everything wrong in our world today

Image: Florida Centre for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida

9/11: Danger Close

When I was a boy, the telephone number to dial in any emergency was 999. It remains so in much of the British Commonwealth today. Generations of schoolchildren were told that these digits were chosen because they were “easy to remember”. 

It was the United Ki…