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Weekend interlude: Just a closer walk with thee

June 20, 2015 By Harold Pollack

The setting and circumstances of Charleston’s atrocity remind me of the many times that I’ve visited various African-American churches. As a white non-Christian, I’ve always been embraced as a valued guest. That Dylann Roof was accorded similar hospitality, and yet apparently went on to murder the very people who graciously welcomed him adds yet another incomprehensibly depraved element to this attack.

We could all use some joyful noise to salve the wound just a little bit. Below are Mahalia Jackson and Louis Armstrong, at the Newport Jazz Festival 1970.

Filed Under: Commerce, Psychology, Well-being, & Spirituality, Religion

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  1. TheHersch says

    June 20, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    Reverend Robert Wilkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4N-VwzQW0s

  2. dorettas says

    June 23, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    That was beautiful, Harold. Thank you.

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