The Rev. Anthony B. Thompson, a longtime priest of the Reformed Episcopal Church, lost his wife when Dylann Roof shot nine Christians to death during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
Here he preaches at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham about how he lived by Christianity’s enduring theme of forgiveness amid that loss.
Fr. Thompson also spoke with the Rev. Timothy George, dean, on the Beeson Divinity School Podcast.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
