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[Also: Thou Shalt Not Bail | Hope for America's Opioid Epidemic Is Grace in a Syringe] Also: Thou Shalt Not Bail | Hope for America's Opioid Epidemic Is Grace in a Syringe | [View online]( [ChristianityToday.org]( [Donate]( [Christianity Today Weekly Newsletter]( Friday, August 18, 2017 COVER STORY [Facing Our Legacy of Lynching]( How a memorial could help lead America — and Christians — to repentance from a dark history. D. L. Mayfield More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and the rise of the civil rights movement in the early 1950s. Lynching was a brutal public tactic for maintaining white supremacy, frequently used with the tacit blessing of government authorities. It was a part of my heritage I had never been taught, despite my homeschool community's heavy focus on American history and despite brave efforts by activists like Ida B. Wells, perhaps the 19th century's most famous anti-lynching voice, to draw attention to the epidemic. [continue reading >>]( Editor's Note [Our September Issue: Our Checkered Pasts Are God's Glory]( Why redemption is sweeter without selective memory. Andy Olsen News [Evangelical Advisers Condemn Charlottesville Rally More Than Trump]( Christian leaders name the evil behind this weekend's violence. Kate Shellnutt The Exchange [#Charlottesville, the Christian Response, and Your Church's Call]( Silence on matters of hatred and bigotry is antithetical to the gospel. Ed Stetzer Women [Dispatches from Charlottesville: What Happens When Neo-Nazis Are Outside Your Church Doors]( The protesters came with torches. We sang, "This Little Light of Mine." Leah Wise Podcast [What the Alt-Right Tells Us About Christianity and Politics]( The role religion plays in the white nationalist group behind the Charlottesville protests. CT Editors Editorial [The Use of Nuclear Weapons Is Inherently Evil]( No earthly leader gets the 'authority to do whatever.' 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