“Charleston” Articles

One must first be shown mercy (and accept it), before he can be merciful to someone else.

We see what we want to see. The only obvious exception in recent memory is the family members of the shooter’s victims, who stood up at his preliminary court hearing and publicly forgave him.

Several songs on Nathan Partain’s ‘Jaywalker’ came just in time to help me find the words that I—and maybe others—might need as some kind of medicine for an angry, aching heart.