Caroline Westerhoff is the retired canon for ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, GA, and author of several books.
Canon Caroline A. Westerhoff is the retired canon for ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, GA.
Formerly a senior consultant with the Alban Institute, she has served as assistant to the Bishop of Atlanta; a visiting lecturer in religious education at the School of Theology at Sewanee, the University of the South; a faculty member with the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC; and a licensed preacher in the Episcopal Church.
She is the author of Transforming the Ordinary; Make All Things New: Stories of Healing, Reconciliation, and Peace; and other books and resources. She and her husband, theologian John Westerhoff, live in Atlanta.
I walked into the gallery and headed straight for the photograph that had haunted me for weeks. The little girl, seven or eight years old, stood in the near background of the picture, only a few feet from the hanging body of Rubin Stacy. I'd hoped she had disappeared-that I had remembered wrong. But there she was, arms down, wrists crossed in front of her in an eerie likeness of his manacled hands.
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