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responding to the hatred

Today I share with you an article from one of my favorite writers and speakers, Margaret Feinberg.   In this article she shares insight in dealing with happenings this past weekend in Charlottesville in an article posted on her website titled “ Charlottesville—Responding to the Hatred and the Horror” The shouting, the slurs, the swastikas, and hands raised in Nazi-style salutes. These types of images instill fear in my heart, thanks in part to the warnings of my Polish Jewish grandmother. Somehow these symbols and images have been resurrected in our time, now targeting not just Jews but also black people and Muslim people and immigrants.  How can this be? Seeing these images emanate not from black-and-white clips of Nazi Germany but technicolor shots of Charlottesville stoked anger inside of me. But the words of the Beloved Disciple rang in my ears: I John 4:20 “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love hi...