A moving meditation on the subject of evil and sacrifice in the context of Flight 93
Ben Domenech Online has a beautifully crafted essay growing out of his visit to Shanksville, PA. Here's an excerpt:

Sacrifice has often proved to be evil's undoing. I have always thought that evil has no context for the concept of sacrifice; it was not Christ’s existence, but His sacrificial acts that puzzled Lucifer to no end. There is something about evil that abhors sacrifice in all its forms -- for loved ones, for friends, for strangers. Perhaps George MacDonald had it right when he wrote that Hell has but one principle: “I am my own.”

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