Charleston Currents – forgiveness

FEEDBACK: Forgiveness column still touches heart

John W. Martin III, McBee, S.C.: “It has been over a year and a half since I read your column about forgiveness at Emanuel Church in Charleston (I just read it again). You are one of the few who seem to acknowledge the greatness of what happened there. The difference in what happened in Charleston and what happened in other places after similar atrocities is incredible. It continues to return to my mind to the point that I want to visit that church.”

by Charleston Currents · 02/12/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

Dozens of bouquets lined a sidewalk last year outside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

BRACK: The remarkable story of forgiveness in Charleston

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Almost a year later, the remarkable words of family members in pain still ring in our ears.

“I forgive you,” one said in a crowded courtroom. “May God have mercy on you,” another added. “Hate won’t win,” said a third.

One after another, five people squeezed by turmoil forgave an accused killer, who stood pancake-faced in shackles in a separate room and watched his bond hearing on a television screen.

by Andy Brack · 06/13/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

LETTERS: Two thanks on column about forgiveness

WOW! Thank you so much for being the voice for many of us in the community and the faith-based world that believe and feel the same way. Your article [Brack, “Acts of forgiveness may be key to real power”] was so powerful and moving.

by Charleston Currents · 08/17/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Feedback

BRACK: Acts of forgiveness may be key to real power

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | The whole notion of forgiveness has been in the front of many people’s minds in the weeks since the massacre at Emanuel AME Church. Just how, they wonder, could family members of the victims, one after another, forgive the accused shooter so quickly after such a reprehensible deed?

by Andy Brack · 08/10/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

8/10, full issue: Photo sleuth; forgiveness; more

In the Aug. 10 issue of Charleston Currents, West Ashley educator Elizabeth Halberstadt tells of how she reconnected old family photos with today’s descendants. Publisher Andy Brack offers words on forgiveness and how a new book by Vally Sharpe may be helpful. Calendar, photo, much more…

by Charleston Currents · 08/10/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue