Something both Lumpy Lambert and Mark Harmon can agree on
From the Knox County Commission Online Forum:
Mark Harmon on Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:16 am
I have written the the commission office asking this item below be forwarded to the Agenda Committee as a resolution. I also ask we invite Rev. Chris Buice of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church to give the invocation.
Resolution
Be it resolved [...]
The courage of Unitarianism
Julie Auer writes:
No, it is not a traditional faith. It never was.
Unitarianism was one of the earliest movements of the Reformation, and its history is old and really interesting. Michael Servetus is the Latinized named for Miguel Serveto, a Spanish theologian and a real Renaissance man in the literal sense of the word. Also an [...]
Those macho liberals
I was visiting with some friends last night, one of whom attends the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. She happened to be absent from Sunday’s services, but is obviously very shaken up by everything that happened.
Anyway, we were chatting, and she said that she’s just so proud of the men who took down the shooter, [...]
Getting it straight on hate in the Volunteer State
There has been a lot of discussion here at Knoxville Talks, and elsewhere in our community about the possible prosecution of the TVUU Church shooting as a “hate crime.” And as WBIR Producer Jake Jost points out, there is also a lot of misunderstanding. He notes:
There’s a few misconceptions here I felt a need to [...]
Do you think they have a big, comfy couch on Knoxville’s “miracle mile”
Apparently the NBC reporter covering the Knoxville shootings this morning made the statement (paraphrase) that there are so many churches along that stretch of Kingston Pike near TVUUC that “people call it ‘miracle mile’”
Have you ever called that stretch “miracle mile?”
Has anyone you know ever called it that?
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Support TVUUC by supporting its causes
Here’s a wonderful effort undertaken by a local blogger to show support for Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church.
I don’t attend TVUUC and have no connection to the church or other causes linked below. I do have several friends who are members of TVUUC. I have been struggling with a way to show my support.
The violent events [...]
Sam Venable: Knoxville was victim of “domestic terrorist attack”
Venable today:
Believers of this warped rationale can be found living in Pakistani caves and white duplexes in Powell. Not even the peaceful confines of a church sanctuary afford safe haven from their madness.
How ironic that Adkisson wore a shirt depicting the Tennessee state flag when the heinous crime for which he has been charged was [...]
Local Talk Radio
I’ve been listening to our local newstalk station, WNOX 990 some in the past few days, trying to get some sense of that audience’s reaction to the terrible TVUU church shooting.
On yesterday afternoon’s show, I heard Catherine Howell ask a fair, difficult and important question. She said (and I paraphrase): Do those of us who [...]
Church attack victim issues statement
From Allison Lee this afternoon:
I read in yesterday’s newspaper (Sunday Knoxville News Sentinel) that a woman was “trampled” during the shooting yesterday at the Unitarian Church. I believe that refers mistakenly to me. I want to be clear that I was not “trampled.” I heard the blast, saw the man with the [...]
Read More..>>PTSD
One of the victims of the church shooting is headed home from the hospital today with a very serious eye injury, as well as a re-emergence of symptoms from his past:
John Worth suffers from post traumatic stress after serving in Vietnam, and according to Joy, her husband is once again exhibiting signs.
“He’s very jumpy,” [...]
How they heard
The husband of one of the injured victims in Sunday’s TVUUC shooting heard about the incident from a Dutch newspaper he read in Brazil, where he’s doing research:
Allison Lee and her daughters were sitting near 61-year-old Linda Kraeger, who was killed in the attack. J.D. Lee says his six-year-old granddaughter was splattered with blood in [...]
Our community’s worst fears confirmed
KPD Chief Owen has just confirmed that it appears the suspect in yesterday’s fatal church attack was, in fact, targeting the good people of the TVUUC because of their religious and political beliefs.
No matter what YOUR religious or political beliefs happen to be, we must all stand together as Knoxvillians united during this terrible time, [...]
Commenting on the TVUUC attack
Knoxville News Sentinel online guru Jack Lail ponders how to handle the most offensive comments that end up on news sites after a tragedy like yesterday’s church shooting.
My publisher sent me several emails over the weekend about complaints about hateful, invective, acidic and just generally mean-spirited reader comments on our newspaper Web sites.
And the [...]
Fox blogs Knox
Fox reporter Jonathan Serrie is doing some blogging on the church shootings from Knoxville.
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Suffice it to say…
…that I am exhausted tonight - mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Covering this story today was very difficult for me, but it really only hit me with full force after I left the newsroom and came home.
As a longtime, on-and off-again attendee of the church, I’ve spent many hours in that peaceful sanctuary with that group [...]
