In this Advent season, amid the shadows, comes the light
When I heard the news bulletin about the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., my hand sprinted to the off button on my car radio. Enough already.
Turning off the radio, though, doesn't tune out the unspeakable pain of senseless and merciless taking of human life, even when it's a continent away from me. The horror still ripples through newspaper headlines, tweets and water cooler conversations, leaving fear and questions in its wake. What shadows in the human soul lead a couple to gun down people at a holiday party? It's hard not to allow San Bernardino--and Paris and Charleston, S.C., and the list goes on--to threaten trust in the decency of humankind.
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Susan Gottshall Associate Executive Director, Communications American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS)
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