What was it we saw on Sept. 11th? Was it the face of religion? And where, if one is a believer, was God? Indeed, if one is not a believer, did Sept. 11th make the idea of God more improbable?
In Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, producer Helen Whitney interviews priests, rabbis, and Islamic scholars, victims' families and World Trade Center survivors, writers and thinkers, atheists and agnostics, about the questions that haven't gone away.
Narrator: Kathryn Walker
Principal Photography: Tom Hurwitz, Eddie Marritz
Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero aired nationally on PBS.
"This gesture, this holding of hands in the midst of that horror, it embodies what September 11th was all about. Does it show the ultimate hopelessness of human attempts to survive the power of hatred and death? Or is it an affirmation of greatness within our humanity itself that somehow shines in the midst of that darkness and contains the hint of a possibility, a power greater than death itself? Which of the two? It's a choice. It's the choice of September 11."
- Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, Professor of Theology, St. Joseph's Seminary in New York
If you would like to explore films with similar themes, please click on Multifaith or Spirituality.
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