Today at UNC, an SUV drove through the center of campus at 40-50 miles per hour in an attempt to run down students (click here to read the story). The driver was a former UNC student who is reportedly saying that he did it to avenge American treatment of Arabs.
I was on campus and in the area just minutes after it happened, it was total chaos. Several people are in the hospital, no one is seriously injured.
There is talk around campus that he did it to avenge the Daily Tar Heel's printing of the now infamous cartoon that has sparked so much violence in Europe.
Please pray for us as the Christian community decides how best to address this. Just last weekend two students fell out of a window--one died, the other is stable and left ICU earlier this week. No alcohol was involved, it was just a freak accident.
Students (and the rest of us!) are a little dazed and unsure how to process all of it. I need lots of grace and we need lots of wisdom to deal faithfully with the questions that inevitably come up as a result of an event like this.
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