Let's be inspired to find effective ways to counter violence, misinformation, and bigotry in the years ahead
by Joel Connelly
Mother Nature projected gloom on a raw, cold, foggy Christmas Eve in 1985 as I took the family’s standard poodle, Jennifer, for a walk through our Madrona neighborhood.
There was no way of knowing that a heinous crime was being committed in a house past which we walked.
During Eucharist at Epiphany two hours later, as we offered prayers of the faithful, I learned of the lethal stabbing attack on popular Seattle attorney Chuck Goldmark and his family. The deranged assailant believed he was fighting communism.
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We are getting a reminder forty years later as thousands gather at Bondi Beach near Sydney to remember fifteen victims, murdered on Hanukkah because they were Jewish. One was an elderly Holocaust survivor.
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