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Title: We Are Charleston
Subtitle: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
Author: Herb Edward Frazier, Bernard Powers, Marjory Wentworth
Narrator: Barry Scott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-14-16
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. The captured shooter, 21-year-old Dylan Roof, a white supremacist, was charged with their murders. Two days after the shooting, while Roof's court hearing was held on videoconference, the families of his nine victims, one by one, appeared on the screen - forgiving the killer. The "Emanuel Nine" set a profound example for their families, their city, their nation, and indeed the world.
We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, the triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel AME church and the wider denominational movement. In many ways this church's story is America's story - the oldest AME church in the Deep South fighting for freedom and civil rights but also fighting for grace and understanding. Fighting to transcend bigotry, fraud, hatred, racism, poverty, and misery. The shootings in June 2015 opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates Southern institutions and remains part of American society.
We Are Charleston tells the story of a people, continually beaten down, who seem to continually triumph over the worst adversity. Exploring the storied history of the AME Church may be a way of explaining the price and power of forgiveness, a way of revealing God's mercy in the midst of tremendous pain.
We Are Charleston may help us discover what can be right in a world that so often has gone wrong.
Members Reviews:
We are Charleston
Very I formative about details and feelings of all involved
Three Stars
Knowing Charleston's history helped put current events in context.
Mother Emanuel Church
Historic and current information surrounding Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston SC
The story behind the AME Church shootings
The shootings at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church last summer shocked the nation and the world. And then came a moment even greater: When family members of several of the victims, given the opportunity to say a few words to the accused gunman, offered forgiveness. To a nation accustomed to anger and vindictiveness, forgiveness came unexpectedly. It was counterintuitive. It made many of us wonder whether in the same circumstances we could have offered the gunman, or anyone, forgiveness. What "We Are Charleston" does so well is explain why the members of the Mother Emanuel AME Church were able to utter those words of forgiveness. It's a story, told in beautifully written prose, that starts with the establishment of slavery in South Carolina and takes the reader through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement and the present day. It describes the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Churches throughout the South, and the role they have played in holding together the black community and leading its members to equal rights. All three of these authors are Charlestonians, and from their bios are clearly insiders in the city and even in the AME church.
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Title: We Are Charleston
Subtitle: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
Author: Herb Edward Frazier, Bernard Powers, Marjory Wentworth
Narrator: Barry Scott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-14-16
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. The captured shooter, 21-year-old Dylan Roof, a white supremacist, was charged with their murders. Two days after the shooting, while Roof's court hearing was held on videoconference, the families of his nine victims, one by one, appeared on the screen - forgiving the killer. The "Emanuel Nine" set a profound example for their families, their city, their nation, and indeed the world.
We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, the triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel AME church and the wider denominational movement. In many ways this church's story is America's story - the oldest AME church in the Deep South fighting for freedom and civil rights but also fighting for grace and understanding. Fighting to transcend bigotry, fraud, hatred, racism, poverty, and misery. The shootings in June 2015 opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates Southern institutions and remains part of American society.
We Are Charleston tells the story of a people, continually beaten down, who seem to continually triumph over the worst adversity. Exploring the storied history of the AME Church may be a way of explaining the price and power of forgiveness, a way of revealing God's mercy in the midst of tremendous pain.
We Are Charleston may help us discover what can be right in a world that so often has gone wrong.
Members Reviews:
We are Charleston
Very I formative about details and feelings of all involved
Three Stars
Knowing Charleston's history helped put current events in context.
Mother Emanuel Church
Historic and current information surrounding Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston SC
The story behind the AME Church shootings
The shootings at Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church last summer shocked the nation and the world. And then came a moment even greater: When family members of several of the victims, given the opportunity to say a few words to the accused gunman, offered forgiveness. To a nation accustomed to anger and vindictiveness, forgiveness came unexpectedly. It was counterintuitive. It made many of us wonder whether in the same circumstances we could have offered the gunman, or anyone, forgiveness. What "We Are Charleston" does so well is explain why the members of the Mother Emanuel AME Church were able to utter those words of forgiveness. It's a story, told in beautifully written prose, that starts with the establishment of slavery in South Carolina and takes the reader through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement and the present day. It describes the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Churches throughout the South, and the role they have played in holding together the black community and leading its members to equal rights. All three of these authors are Charlestonians, and from their bios are clearly insiders in the city and even in the AME church.