We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
Narrator
Release Date
June 2016
Duration
8 hours 37 minutes
Summary
We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider denominational movement.

On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine members of the congregation. The captured shooter, twenty-one-year-old Dylan Roof, a white supremacist, was charged with their murders. Two days after the shooting, while Roof’s court hearing was held on video conference, some of the families of his nine victims, one by one, appeared on the screen—forgiving the killer. The “Emanuel Nine” set a profound example for their families, their city, their nation, and indeed the world.

In many ways, this church’s story is America’s story—the oldest A.M.E. church in the Deep South fighting for freedom and civil rights but also fighting for grace and understanding. Fighting to transcend bigotry, fraud, hatred, racism, poverty, and misery. The shootings in June 2015, opened up a deep wound of racism that still permeates Southern institutions and remains part of American society.  

We Are Charleston tells the story of a people, continually beaten down, who seem to continually triumph over the worst of adversity. Exploring the storied history of the A.M.E. Church may be a way of explaining the price and power of forgiveness, a way of revealing God’s mercy in the midst of tremendous pain. We Are Charleston may help us discover what can be right in a world that so often has gone wrong.
We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
This title is due for release on June 14, 2016.

Enter your email below to be notified as soon as it is available!

By clicking "Notify Me" you consent to receiving electronic marketing communications from Audiobooks.com. You will be able to unsubscribe at any time.

Already a member? Log In to add this title to your wishlist.
We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
This title is due for release on June 14, 2016
We'll send you an email as soon as it is available!

Already a member?
Log in to add this title in your wishlist
We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
Please Log in and add this title to your wishlist.
We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel

We will send you an email as soon as this title is available.

1 book added to cart
Subtotal
$24.99
View Cart