Editor Brian Kaylor reflects on the quick move by a Baptist church in Georgia to kick out the man who killed eight people at three massage parlors. And Kaylor wonders where Jesus would have instead shown up in Atlanta on Sunday.
About 30 people gathered for a prayer walk on Sunday to pray for victims of a mass shooting at three Atlanta-area spas last week, including two in the Buckhead neighborhood.
The church attended by the White man charged with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, most of them women of Asian descent, condemned the shootings Friday and said they run contrary to the gospel and the church’s teachings.
The first spa targeted in the Atlanta-area killings this week was in an area very familiar to Robert Aaron Long. It is located within a mile of an evangelical treatment facility where Long, charged in the shootings, spent time as a patient for what he
Asian American Christian leaders said Thursday their congregations are saddened and outraged after a White gunman killed eight people — most of them women of Asian descent — at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. And they’re calling for action beyond prayers.
Years before being suspected of killing eight people in a suburb of Atlanta, including six Asian women, Robert Aaron Long was active in his Southern Baptist congregation, his youth pastor said Wednesday. Read full piece
Raymond Chang reflects on the Atlanta shooting at several massage parlors where Asian women were targeted. And he writes about how Christians can help address the important issues of racism.
On Tuesday, authorities arrested a 21-year-old White man for allegedly shooting people at three massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia, area — killing eight people, including six Asian women. The man arrested for the murders was involved in a Southern Baptist church and wrote online
Many Black faith leaders say that lawmakers in Georgia, Missouri, and elsewhere are focused on reducing effective strategies Black churches have historically employed to mobilize voters.
New proposals by the G.O.P.-controlled Legislature have targeted Sunday voting, part of a raft of measures that could reduce the impact of Black voters in the state. Read full piece