[Magdalen] Please Pray - Shooting in Charleston, SC church

[Ginga Wilder]

Thanks for 'getting this', Sally.  That is very important to me and
ultimately to how this particular event is understood in context.  Since he
took office nearly 40 years go, Charleston's mayor, Joe Riley, a
progressive Democrat, has worked hard toward the end that all races live
together as one people.  In the earliest days of his service as mayor,
conservative Charlestonians gave him the moniker "Little Black Joe."  He,
of course, is not African American.  But, he gets that all are one.  At 72
and profoundly deaf, he is in the last months of his tenure.  I would not
be at all surprised if Charleston elects an African American mayor.

An aside, but so important, the pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church,
where Good Shepherd rents, some of us worshiped with them.  I was there
only for final prayers and singing...today is not a very good day in my
recovery, but all is well...otherwise I'd have attended the whole service.
In the final prayers, among other requests,  Pastor Knox prayed for Dylann
Roof, the young man who murdered the nine people at Mother Emanuel on
Wednesday.  She asked God to turn his heart.  I know two parishioners from
Wesley fairly well.  As we embraced at the end of the service, we agreed
that we are grateful that we are all one in Christ.

Ginga

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:47 AM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ginga mentioned, previously, the good hearts of the people of SC and of
> Charleston. Well, I'm watching CNN and outside First Emanuel Church is a
> huge crowd of people that came together to take a stand against calling
> evil good, and to show love and solidarity to the grieving. Most of them
> are white...So Ginga, I get what you were saying and it's so good to see
> this.
>
> I was just channel spinning, when a familiar song caught my attention, "How
> Great is our God", a contemporary song by Chris Tomlin that I personally
> like, and which seems to cross cultural boundaries rather well. It was part
> of the worship in First Emanuel at this significant service.
>
> So from the tragico-pathetic actions of a miserable "lone wolf", it seems a
> great deal of good can come...let us pray that it transcends the emotion of
> the moment and feeds into something widespread and sustained.
>
> The sweet spirit of our sister Capers could be dancing with joy to see
> this, in the city she loved.
>
> Sally D
>
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 at 1:44 AM Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Last Thursday I had coffee with our former diocesan canon to the ordinary
> > who is my spiritual director , and we both felt, that as pastors, neither
> > of us would carry a gun nor even think about shoot anyone.
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 3:51 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I was correct, BTW.
> > >
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> http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/19/nra-mass-shootings-south-carolina-church
> > >
> > > -M
> > >
> > > On Saturday, June 20, 2015, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > IAN  M bit I think whole point of M's post was the NRA's response
> > actual
> > > > or imagined.
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