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Sutherland Springs - God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town (Hardcover)
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Sutherland Springs - God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town (Hardcover)
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Sutherland Springs was the last place anyone would have expected to
be victimized by our modern-day scourge of mass shootings. Founded
in the 1850s along historic Cibolo Creek, the tiny community, named
for the designated physician during the siege of the Alamo, was
once a vibrant destination for wealthy tourists looking to soak up
the "cures" of its namesake mineral springs. By November 5, 2017,
however, the day a former Air Force enlistee opened fire in the
town's First Baptist Church, killing twenty-six people, Sutherland
Springs was a shadow of its former self. Twenty-six people died
that Sunday morning, in the worst mass shooting in a place of
worship in American history. Holley, who roams the Lone Star State
as the "Native Texan" columnist for the Houston Chronicle and
earned a Pulitzer- Prize nomination for his editorials about guns,
spent more than a year embedded in the community. Long after most
journalists had left, he stayed with his fellow Texans, getting to
know a close-knit group of people - victims, heroes, and survivors.
Marked by both a deep faith in God and in guns, Holley shows how
they work to come to terms with their loss and to rebuild shattered
lives. He also uses the Sutherland Springs' unique history and its
decades-long decline as a prism for understanding how an act of
unspeakable violence reflects the complicated realities of Texas
and America in the twenty-first century.
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