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Stack's Stone

Ryan "Stack" Clark's Hokie Stone memorial on the drillfield. The victim memorials continue to evolve, with new items, tributes, and flowers being added all the time. Photo taken Thursday, June 14.

Tags: clark, Hokie stone, memorial, ryan clark, stack

17 April 2007

The talking heads keep talking about the "VT Massacre", not that it doesn't deserve attention, but this is too much attention. And VT is getting a bad wrap unfairly on one specific point: the notification of students on campus as…

Tags: blog, clark, reaction, ryan clark, stack

WCC leader backs calls for effective US firearms regulations

News Brief

By staff writers
18 Apr 2007

World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia has expressed "deep sorrow" over "this new horror of random violence" that took place at Virginia Tech University on Monday 16…

Tags: gun control, samuel kobia, violence, wcc, world council of churches

Korean church leaders caution against backlash after US shootings

News Brief

By staff writers
21 Apr 2007

Korean and American Korean church leaders are calling for "healing, reconciliation and peace" amid concerns that the Virginia Tech shootings by a South Korean native could lead to a backlash against…

Tags: christian, korea, korean, korean american, methodist, reconciliation, violence

The Altar of the Gun

Note: I found writing this piece to be a way of channeling my own anger at the massacre this morning. But I recognize that anger is only one part of the grief process. Please join me in praying for the families and friends of those…

Tags: blog, gun control, guns

Transnistria survivor Liviu Librescu killed in Virginia Tech massacre

During Tuesday's massacre at Virginia Tech, in the USA, a holocaust survivor with ties to Tiraspol was killed. Liviu Librescu had survived deportation from Romania to the killing fields of World War II's Transnistria. The territory was never…

Tags: holocaust, librescu, survivors, transnistria

We Remember and Honor

Wooden plaque remembering and honoring nine students from Political Science and International Studies. It is currently displayed on the fifth floor of Major Williams Hall. Photo taken Monday, June 18.

Tags: cloyd, cueva, hammaren, international studies, laporte, mccain, perez, peterson, plaque, political science, samaha, sherman, white

'Nightmare of Nightmares'

Virginia Tech's Korean Christians wrestle with the aftermath of a massacre.

Deann Alford | posted 6/06/2007 08:02AM

The alert that two students had been shot on campus blipped into Jong Nam Lee's e-mail inbox around 9:30 that fateful…

Tags: baptist, christian, christianity, korean, korean american, korean christian

A Gray Haze over Everything

Campus life after the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

Philip Yancey | posted 6/06/2007 08:01AM

"April is the cruellest month." When T. S. Eliot penned that opening line to "The Waste Land" in 1921, he had no idea how it would resound in modern…

Tags: christian, christianity, nlcf

Where Is God When It Hurts?

A sermon given on the Virginia Tech campus two weeks after the shootings.

Philip Yancey | posted 6/06/2007 05:31PM

We gather here still trying to make sense of what happened in Blacksburg, still trying to process the unprocessable. We come…

Tags: christian, christianity, sermon

Asking Why

Christian fellowship helps survivors of the Virginia Tech shootings deal with larger issues.

Deann Alford in Blacksburg, Virginia | posted 4/23/2007 09:50AM

Four former Columbine students worshiped with Virginia Tech's New Life Christian…

Tags: christian, christianity, fellowship, nlcf

Peace in a World of Massacre

What Jesus calls us to when we're most frightened.

Mark Galli | posted 4/17/2007 11:35AM

When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews,…

Tags: christian, christianity, god, jesus, peace, sermon

Memorial Balloon Release

With both state and national flags flying at half-staff, the memorial balloons are released into the heavens.

Tags: april 23, balloons, memorial

Flags at Half Staff

These flags flew at half-staff in front of the Metropolition Art Museum in New York City the weekend after the shootings at Virginia Tech, showing national solidarity and support for the University.

Tags: flags, metropolitan museum of art, new york

very sad

I left Blacksburg close to three years ago after attending Virginia Tech for both undergraduate and graduate school. I never thought that my sleepy alma mater tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains could be the site of such a horrific tragedy. My friends…

Tags: alumni, mourning, personal account

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