FROM THE EDITORS April 20, 2009 Issue

A FIXED FACT IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY

Editor

THROUGH THE NOISE OF ANGER AND DERANGEMENT, THE VOICE OF THE CHRIST REACHES CONSCIOUSNESS.

WITHIN ONE FOUR-DAY PERIOD last month, three separate tragedies made headlines and prompted fresh concerns about the random nature of violence in today's world. On Sunday morning March 8, Rev. Fred Winters was shot at the pulpit by a gunman who walked into an early morning service at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois. Two days later, a man went on a shooting rampage in southeast Alabama, killing himself and ten others. Then Wednesday of that same week, a German teenager took 15 lives as well as his own, in a similar incident in the Stuttgart suburb Winnenden.

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