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PHOTOS BY BOBBY ROSS JR.
Ashley Hawthorne wants justice in the
death of Botham Jean: "Everybody
should be able to close their doors
at night and feel safe in their home."
PARENTS OF LGBTQ children and
leaders of Churches of Christ
tackle faith and sexuality.
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ACROSS THE NATION, members of Churches of Christ raise voices to
heaven and ‘stand in solidarity’ with Botham Jean’s family. The
devoted Christian was killed 23 days before his 27th birthday.
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you can
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That, my
friends, is a
big, fat lie.
I say this
as I watch a
dear friend
and mother
mourn
the loss of
her husband to cancer. No
longer having the man she
vowed to spend a lifetime
with by her side is more
than she can handle.
I say this as a dear friend
from college mourns the
death of her newborn
baby. Moving forward each
day without her beautiful
daughter in her arms is
more than she can handle.
I say this as another friend
battles addiction and waits,
weeks after reaching out for
help, to get that help. Doing
it on her own is more than
she can handle (and medi-
cally unsafe).
Our burdens, our pains in
this life can be heavy and
hard to carry.
In Matthew 11:28 Jesus
says, “Come to me all you
who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest. ”
Our rest, our comfort is in
him because we cannot do
it alone.
It seems there’s a need,
an urge when someone is
See HANDLE, Page 4
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is more than we can
handle. Life.
Somewhere, over the
years, it’s become common
for Christians to say to our
brother and sisters dealing
with hard times, “Don’t
worry, God won’t give you
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DALLAS
1 raise as protest,” declared the bold
M J J letters on the T-shirt that Ashley
Hawthorne sported at the Dallas
County courts building on a recent
weekend.
On a gloomy Saturday, clouds covered the
tops of nearby skyscrapers and Dallas’ landmark
Reunion Tower. Rain drenched Hawthorne as
she stood without an umbrella on the steps out-
side the Frank Crowley Courts Building.
But Hawthorne and roughly 150 other
Christians had come — on the day that
Botham Jean would have celebrated his 27th
birthday — to remember their fallen brother
and call for justice in his fatal shooting by an
off-duty, uniformed Dallas police officer.
See BOTHAM, Page 10
DALLAS — Carrie Underwood’s
“Love Wins” video played on the
big screens as the E3 Conference
opened at the Highland Oaks
Church of Christ.
“I believe you and me are sisters
and brothers. And I believe we’re
made to be here for each other,”
Underwood sings in the country
hit. “And we’ll never fall if we walk
hand in hand, put a world that
seems broken together again. Yeah,
I believe, in the end love wins.”
Helping parents of
LGBTQ children and
leaders of Churches
of Christ “better
understand and love
unconditionally” was
the goal of the recent
conference organized
by CenterPeace. The G
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provides support for people who
experience same-sex attraction.
E3 aims to “equip, empower and
encourage” Christians to engage
in more thoughtful dialogue about
faith and sexuality.
“Nobody’s asking you to change
what you believe,” Sally Gary,
CenterPeace’s founder and execu-
tive director, told the 350 attendees
who came from across the United
States and Canada. “Nobody’s
asking you to change what you
think about the morality of sexuality.
“But what we are going to have
to change,” she added, “is how we
provide community for the entire
body of Christ.”
At a time when national polling
See E3 CONFERENCE, Page 26
‘Love Wins’
Willie Williams Jr., father of minister Willie Williams III, leads singing at a #Justice4Botham
event in Dallas.The fatal shooting of Botham Jean, 26, has"brought young and old together,
black and white together, rich and poor together," Williams Jr. told the crowd.
Singing and
seeking justice
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