Rabbi Jeffrey Myers is retiring from Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, which he led through the aftermath of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has sparked a conversation about forgiveness after forgiving the man accused of assassinating her husband.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

America now has seen exactly what black America has been knowing for a couple of hundred years, he said. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)For black clergy across the United States, the past 10 days have been a tumultuous test of their stamina and their skills. For weeks, they had been striving to comfort their congregations amid a pandemic taking a disproportionately heavy toll on African-Americans. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. “Just trying to pastor effectively in a pandemic world -- that alone has been a full challenge,” McKissic said.