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Meg Barnhouse, a UU minister, singer, and essayist who has been a great source of spiritual comfort and inspiration to me, wrote a column for the UU World about the shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
She knew the shooter.
Barnhouse titled her column "Love Can't Fix Everything." It's a very loving but relentlessly clearheaded look at the comforting things we try to tell ourselves when we are faced with evil. If you're a UU or otherwise of a liberal pursuasion, you might find parts of it hard to read - I did. Barnhouse loves us too much to let us deceive ourselves about who we are.
I am resisting the urge to quote the whole column, every last word of it. Instead I'll put a fairly large chunk of it behind a cut. The part I'm posting has particular resonance to me because of personal issues I'm dealing with and because of my assessment of my own trials and shortcomings, but I strongly urge you to follow the link above and read the whole piece. ( Read more... )
She knew the shooter.
Barnhouse titled her column "Love Can't Fix Everything." It's a very loving but relentlessly clearheaded look at the comforting things we try to tell ourselves when we are faced with evil. If you're a UU or otherwise of a liberal pursuasion, you might find parts of it hard to read - I did. Barnhouse loves us too much to let us deceive ourselves about who we are.
I am resisting the urge to quote the whole column, every last word of it. Instead I'll put a fairly large chunk of it behind a cut. The part I'm posting has particular resonance to me because of personal issues I'm dealing with and because of my assessment of my own trials and shortcomings, but I strongly urge you to follow the link above and read the whole piece. ( Read more... )
