After August 12: How Charlottesville Faith Leaders Responded
A reflection of how Charlottesville is grappling with its identity after August 12 and how faith leaders are working together to address systemic racism.
A reflection of how Charlottesville is grappling with its identity after August 12 and how faith leaders are working together to address systemic racism.
I participated in supporting the clergy response against the alt-right rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017. Recently, my heart was cut to the quick when I reread Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Particularly convicting was the first of two confessions by King: “First, I must confess that over the past …