In the long and difficult work of building bridges across faith traditions, the Archbishop of Canterbury found himself this week navigating the gap between a person's present commitments and their past words. Lambeth Palace withdrew an interfaith reconciliation award given to Pakistani cleric Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi just days after presenting it, when 2007 remarks surfaced in which he praised Osama bin Laden as a defender of Islam and called him the 'Sword of God.' The episode, unfolding against the solemn backdrop of the 25th anniversary of September 11, asks an enduring