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Thorough and detailed without being dry.
Grace Will Lead Us Home begins with the story of Emmanuel AME Church and its most devout members who decided to stay after hours of meetings for a Bible study led by a newly licensed minister. Just after the study began a slight slip of a man in a long-sleeved gray shirt, Timberlands, and a bowl cut joined in the study. The senior pastor invited the young man to sit beside him.
At the end of the study, the blond man got up, shot the pastor and eight other people, firing 77 bullets into the fellowship hall. Only three Emmanuel members survived the Bible study.
Some might think surviving such an experience would be the end of the story, but for the families of the Emmanuel Nine, surviving was just the beginning.
Hawes tells the complex story of race in Charleston from the past to the present as well as the continuing struggles of Emmanuel, the local AME's unprepared and untrained leadership, displays of racial unity that so often fizzled out before any action to repair systemic inequality, political divisions, and the mercy and grace we are all capable of extending, and in granting others forgiveness how we can grant ourselves freedom and peace.
I've rarely read a piece that wasn't specifically about race or class be so nuanced in its approach. I definitely recommend this to any and all readers.
Grace Will Lead Us Home begins with the story of Emmanuel AME Church and its most devout members who decided to stay after hours of meetings for a Bible study led by a newly licensed minister. Just after the study began a slight slip of a man in a long-sleeved gray shirt, Timberlands, and a bowl cut joined in the study. The senior pastor invited the young man to sit beside him.
At the end of the study, the blond man got up, shot the pastor and eight other people, firing 77 bullets into the fellowship hall. Only three Emmanuel members survived the Bible study.
Some might think surviving such an experience would be the end of the story, but for the families of the Emmanuel Nine, surviving was just the beginning.
Hawes tells the complex story of race in Charleston from the past to the present as well as the continuing struggles of Emmanuel, the local AME's unprepared and untrained leadership, displays of racial unity that so often fizzled out before any action to repair systemic inequality, political divisions, and the mercy and grace we are all capable of extending, and in granting others forgiveness how we can grant ourselves freedom and peace.
I've rarely read a piece that wasn't specifically about race or class be so nuanced in its approach. I definitely recommend this to any and all readers.