Your Voice is Needed: Call Your State Senator Return AmericaMay 2, 2025 RALEIGH—Two bills advancing in the North Carolina General Assembly would give private schools the option to allow trained employees, volunteers, and even visitors with concealed handgun permits to...

Evil walked through the front door of The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn.

Not metaphorical evil. Not theoretical evil. But real, malevolent, deliberate evil — armed and armored, stalking the halls of a Christian school with calculated fury. The shooter shattered glass, fired round after round, and turned innocent lives into casualties. Three precious 9-year-olds. Three staff members. All murdered in the span of minutes.

In recent years, my life has been marked by a series of trials that have left me questioning, “What is going on?” These challenges have come one after another in a way that sometimes feels overwhelming. In 2021, I came dangerously close to death during a severe battle with COVID-19. A few years later, in 2024, the Christian Action League, a ministry I spent 25 years sacrificially serving, was dissolved – an event that profoundly impacted my heart and ministry. And if that wasn’t enough, my marriage, a relationship I deeply cherished, is now in the throes of separation and is not likely to survive, leaving me to navigate the painful loss of a 45-year bond that I expected would last a lifetime.