My Marriage to an Undocumented Immigrant

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11 Portraits of Charleston Survivors' Grief and Grace
CT sent a reporter and a photographer to be with the family members of several victims.
Reporting by Bob Smietana; portraits by Jonathan Hanson
Two unfathomable things happened, more quickly than almost anyone could have imagined, one year ago this June. First, the terror: A young man named Dylann Roof, armed with a .45-caliber handgun, sat through almost an hour of the Wednesday night Bible study at Charleston, South Carolina's venerable "Mother Emanuel" AME Church. Then he opened fire. Within minutes, nine—Depayne Middleton Doctor, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Singleton, and Myra Thompson—were dead. Five survived.... continue reading >>

Gleanings Southern Baptists Hold First of Three Evangelical Events on Racial Reconciliation Ferguson and Charleston prompt white and black Christians to seek unity. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

The Exchange 3 Ways Suffering Produces Sanctification Suffering for the believer is never without purpose. Ed Stetzer

The Local Church What My Church Gained—and Lost—When We Stopped Renting I never thought I'd miss it . . . Aaron Armstrong

Where We Stand A Meditation on the Orlando Shooting This latest attack is part of a pattern, and the pretext for a remarkable prayer. Mark Galli

Her.meneutics My Marriage to an Undocumented Immigrant I lived with the threat of my husband's deportation. Here's what I learned about immigration. Sarah Quezada, guest writer