Remembering the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination
Remembering the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination
Religious scholar reflects on decades-old sermons from the aftermath
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On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. On the 60th anniversary of his death, columnist Bobby Ross Jr. reports on messages from the time that are still relevant to our country today.
He spoke to leading scholar Matthew Wilson, director of Southern Methodist University’s Center for Faith and Learning, about sermons preached on the Sunday after the shooting, many of the transcripts saved in SMU’s archives.
In these sermons, clergy preached against extremism and wrestled with the role Dallas had to play in the tragedy.
One reverend, Charles V. Denman, preached in the aftermath: “Much of the hate and discord that has been poisoning our nation has been preached in the name of Christ and the church.”
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