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.
Confessions of a “moderate Christian” in Charlottesville on August 12
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 …
The Kingdom of God at a KKK Rally
My sermonic reflection of the Kingdom of God, after the Ku Klux Klan came to Charlottesville on July 8, 2017 to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.