Gregory Yee writes for The Post and Courier in Charleston:
Officials announced [June 17] that one of the designers of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum will create a memorial to the victims of the June 2015 mass shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.
Michael Arad, a partner at Handel Architects in New York City, said he was honored and humbled to be working on a memorial to the nine victims of a racially motivated attack that shocked Charleston, South Carolina, and the nation.
“I feel very privileged to be here but I also feel the weight of this responsibility and pray that I will find the means to convey the beauty that I’ve seen here in Charleston,” Arad said.
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.
