by Henry Oliner | Jun 27, 2015 | Politics, Social
From Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal, Two Miracles in Charleston: That was the first miracle, the amazing grace that pierced the hearers’ hearts—in America, in 2015, at an alleged murderer’s bail hearing in a plain, homely courtroom. Christian churches and...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 24, 2015 | Anti Semitism, Social
From The New York Times, Why I Can’t Forgive Dylann Roof by Roxane Gay: Excerpt: The call for forgiveness is a painfully familiar refrain when black people suffer. White people embrace narratives about forgiveness so they can pretend the world is a fairer place than...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church The Dead Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41 Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74 Cynthia Hurd, 54 Sharonda Singleton,45 Myra Thompson, 59, Tywanza Sanders, 26 Rev. DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49 Susie Jackson, 87 Ethel Lance,70 The Killer I...