In Jesus’ time people of all kinds came running with the sick for Him to touch. We can do the same when we cry for His mercy and help. O God heal our land!
It is the final weeks of summer in 2017, and the racial tensions have flared up anew. This time in Charlottesville, Virginia where nineteen people are injured and hospitalized, and one has died: 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Here is how one journalist describes what led up the tragedy, “This spring Charlottesville’s ultra-liberal city council voted to remove an equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee that’s been standing in a park in downtown Charlottesville since 1924 and to change the park’s name from Lee Park to Emancipation Park.”[1] Historian Arthur Herman
Rolling Stones reports the events this way, “’Just a few blocks from Emancipation Park, where the white supremacist rally had been scheduled, the marchers appear nonviolent but raucous, chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” and holding signs like, “Nazi carpetbaggers go home.’”
“This town has grown from its sometimes great but often difficult history and is marching toward an inclusive…
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