It’s been three years since gunman Jim Adkisson entered the sanctuary of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist church and killed two and wounded six before being knocked to the ground. His heinous act was front-page news for a bit, yielding ...

Three years after they penned accounts of the TVUUC shootings for Metro Pulse, three of our essayists write updates.

The service that day was presented without a minister, so when shots rang out, TVUUC’s Religious Education Director Brian Griffin took charge of the congregation, and was the tragedy’s first interface with the police and its initial spokesperson. Griffin is ...