Pastors: Palm Sunday a balm after Nashville school shooting
It’s Palm Sunday. Across the greater Nashville, Tennessee, region, many Christians are walking into worship services grief-stricken and hurting for the lives stolen too soon in The Covenant School shooting. Their heartsick pastors are standing in pulpits trying to bring comfort to those seeking answers to unanswerable questions after a heavily armed assailant killed six at a private, Christian grade school in Nashville. On the first Sunday after the attack — and the start of Christianity’s most sobering and sacred week — clergy are making space in their Palm Sunday services for communal grief.