Charleston shooting survivor Jennifer Pinckney continues justice work

c. 2016 Religion News Service

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) The first lady of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church offered two enduring images: her late husband’s smiling face lying in a casket, and the bullet holes that riddled the church walls when she went to clean out his office a week later.

“Clementa was a peaceful person,” said Jennifer Pinckney, the widow of pastor and South Carolina state senator Clementa Pinckney, during a visit to Duke University to talk about gun control, race, and faith. “He was all about peace.”