Palm Sunday, 2018. I forget exactly when I started closing my essays with the words “love one another,” but what follows is a redux of an essay I wrote on June 26, 2016, days after the Pulse shooting, that lays out my interpretation of those three little words. Plus with Easter coming up on Sunday, it’s kinda relevant. Enjoy.
Tag: Orlando
Pulse: One Year Later
For me, viewing televised reports of mass murders and terror attacks had become, dare I say, commonplace. Yes, a detached sadness accompanied watching those tragedies, but those types of events happened in other cities. Disasters like that could never happen in my hometown. But on June 12, 2016, that all changed when forty-nine victims were brutally murdered, the gunman killed, and scores more injured at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub five minutes from downtown
Love One Another: It’s Just That Simple
Candlelight vigil in downtown Orlando. (Photo: Dr. Phiillips Center for the Performing Arts)
It seems that some churches have had a difficult time figuring out how to respond to the Pulse massacre. The answer is simple, and to quote Jesus, “love one another.” There it is. Three words. It doesn’t get any simpler than that. I’m no Biblical scholar, but this one seems to be … well … a no-brainer.
On the night before his crucifixion, Jesus says “love one another” to his Disciples not once, but twice. If memory serves me correctly, Jesus and the Disciples are in the upper room
There Are No Words
Sunday, June 12, 6:03 a.m. NYTimes: A shooting at an Orlando nightclub has left “mass casualties,” the police said
That’s odd. It’s not like the New York Times to send incorrect news. They must be thinking about the shooting at the Plaza Live from Friday night.
I flipped the TV on the way to the kitchen to make my morning coffee. Images from a few