The Colorado Springs shooter?

He’s one of ours.

The Oregon mass killer was a terrorist

Chris Harper Mercer took firearms and killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, exchanged gunfire with law enforcement, and then he shot himself. He was a terrorist, says Simran Jeet Singh, at Religion News Service. Singh writes: In our modern world, “terrorist” is a racially coded word we have reserved primarily for describing Muslims …

Forgiveness is not ours

Listen to this conversation among religious leaders who talk about what forgiveness should look like in Charleston, S.C., where two weeks ago a young white man, espousing white supremacist ideology, shot and killed nine people studying their Bible at Emanuel AME Church. I appreciated everyone’s contribution to this conversation, but I am drawn to the …

The radical forgiveness in Charleston, S.C.

Although I was raised steeped in the Christian concept of forgiveness, the example set by some of the relatives of the Charleston people who were gunned down by a shooter last week stuns me. “But I forgive you.” I do not know how to live like that. I know it’s possible. I’ve seen it up …

It’s terrorism

Call it what you will, but the shooting at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was an act of terrorism. A shooter — Dylann Roof, 21, of South Carolina — has been taken into custody. The shooter shot the pastor and eight members of the Mother Emanuel AME Church during Wednesday night’s …