Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show.

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Now here's your host, Mr. Thrill Ride himself, Eric Mataxis.

Hey there, folks.

I got to tell you, we kind of mix it up on this show.

We do comedy.

We do tragedy.

We talk about everything we hope that will concern you who are listening.

Today, we have something that is unspeakably difficult to discuss and ultimately unspeakably beautiful.

I'm sitting in the studio today with someone I've just had a privilege to meet.

You know about his story. Four years ago, there was a horrific

shooting. Nine people were murdered in a church in Charleston. You may have heard that

many of those folks, while they were praying, while they're doing a Bible study,

were murdered by this young man, Dylan Roof.

And out of this horror came something that most of us cannot imagine.

A number of the people who were the victims of this, whose family members were killed, chose to privately and publicly forgive

the murderer.

I can't get my head around that, but fortunately I have in the studio Pastor Anthony Thompson,

whose wife, Myra, was killed that day.

He's written a book called, Called to Forgive is the title of the book.

Pastor Thompson, welcome.

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