Unexpected Forgiveness

After Dylann Roof shot and killed nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Charleston, South Carolina, one could expect their family members to respond with anger and hatred towards him. The New Yorker reported that in fact, the response was much different. “After the massacre, the family members of the slain men and women, in the throes of unimaginable grief, offered radical forgiveness to Roof. ‘You took something very precious away from me,’ one relative said, add...