Nashville school shooter had ’emotional disorder’ and small arsenal, police say
Nashville, Tennessee, US Reuters The 28-year-old former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had purchased seven guns ahead of the shooting, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale […]
Updated: Ex-student shoots dead three children, three adults at Tennessee Christian school
Updated: 5:50pm (AEDT)Nashville, Tennessee Reuters A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, […]
Memphis teen one of two charged in US church leader’s 2022 killing
Memphis, Tennessee, USAP A 15-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man have been indicted in the carjacking and fatal shooting of a prominent United Methodist Church leader in Memphis, Tennessee, prosecutors said this week. Miguel Andrade, 15, and Eduard Rodriguez-Tabora, 21, were each indicted on charges of first-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery in the 18th July, […]
Faith leaders urge independent review of Alabama executions
Montgomery, Alabama, US AP More than 170 pastors and other faith leaders on Tuesday urged Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to authorise an independent review of execution procedures, as Oklahoma and Tennessee did after a series of failed lethal injections in those states. The group applauded Ivey for taking the “bold and necessary step” of ordering a review of Alabama […]
In the US, teens charged after United Methodist Church leader is killed
Memphis, Tennessee, USAP A 15-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with murder in the fatal shooting of a pastor and leader of the United Methodist Church during a carjacking in Memphis, Tennessee. Rev Autura Eason-Williams was shot Monday afternoon outside of her home, the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church said. She was found […]
Sight-Seeing: Let schoolkids read ‘Maus,’ lest they don’t read at all
KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, in an article published by Religion News Service, argues that the power books have is not in what they tell, but how they tell…
In the US, Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’
RNS A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum earlier this month over concerns about offensive words. The 10-member board of education in McMinn County, nearly 100 kilometres south of Knoxville, voted on 10th January to remove the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman. The […]
Faith groups gear up disaster relief after deadly tornadoes in US state of Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS Faith-based disaster groups are gearing up to provide assistance after overnight tornadoes killed at least 21 people across four counties in Tennessee. A state of emergency was declared Tuesday morning, according to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. “Please keep the great people of Tennessee in your hearts, thoughts and prayers,” the agency posted on its Facebook page. “Strong […]
TobyMac’s 21-year-old son, aspiring rapper Truett Foster McKeehan, dies
USA Today Truett Foster McKeehan, the oldest son of Christian rapper TobyMac, died Wednesday in Nashville, a representative confirmed to the USA TODAY Network – Tennessee. He was 21. The Nashville Fire Department responded late Wednesday morning to a report of a person in cardiac arrest at a home in the city’s Radnor neighbourhood. McKeehan was pronounced […]
ESSAY: WILL GRACE PREVAIL AS A TENNESSEE EXECUTION LOOMS?
Christian author and activist SHANE CLAIBORNE writes about a US death penalty case that’s become very personal to him…