Grace Will Lead Us Home

The Charleston Church Tragedy and the Hard Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roofs massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. Two days later, some relatives of the dead stood at Roofs hearing and said, I forgive you. That grace offered the country a hopeful ending to an awful story. But for the survivors and victims families, the journey had just begun. In