Good News

In the reflection of the recent of the Mother Emanuel shootings, I was happy to read our churches effort to heal histories wounds. It also adds another star to my Elder Christofferson view.

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My two favorite quotes are,

The bureau helped reunite families, opened schools to educate the illiterate, managed hospitals, supervised labor contracts, rationed food and clothing, and even formalized marriages. In the process, the bureau gathered handwritten information on African-Americans,” he said. “These are personal, sometimes-difficult accounts to read at a turning point in our nation’s history when our forebears were struggling with their own humanity. But what one also sees in these records is triumph, hope and resilience. What a great testimony to the sheer will and determination of this generation.”

Jannah Scott, deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, thanked The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for buying, digitizing and now indexing copies of the records — calling it an act of affection coming two days after the hate shown in the Charleston, S.C., murders of worshipers at a black church.

“It is an act of love,” she said.