Former manager Charlie Manuel suffered a stroke Saturday while undergoing a medical procedure in a Florida hospital, the Philadelphia Phillies announced. “The hospital was able to attend to Charlie immediately and subsequently remove a blood clot,” the team said. “The next 24 hours will be crucial to his recovery, and Charlie’s family asks that you keep him in your thoughts and prayers at this time.”
to help in any way i could. that meant pastoral support to the families and that s why pastor roberts also came down there and we had a group of us that went down there, or if that was de-escalating the situation, just wanted to be there. and i will share this moment, because i think it s an important moment actually, and i actually sought her permission to share it yesterday. while this was all going on outside, all of the noise and all of the discussions about the circumstances of it, there was a deeply profound moment where two women enter into the building and very few people were allowed to enter at that time. and there were two pakistani muslim women. and they were close friends to charlie s family, charlie s wife and daughter and when they walked in there and hugged them, i was crying because it was a lengthy hug and clearly these were not just people they met at an interfaith dialogue or a community event once a year. these were two dear close
friends to them, two women from pakistan. and they brought this dinner from pakistan and said charlie s going to eat this dinner with us tonight. i thought to myself, how beautiful, if people can see that moment right now, how much different would the commentary to the situation be? and that s really what it comes down to again, we don t turn them away. when we resist the urge to turn away and instead honor tha god-giving instinct to show mercy and kindness and stand with and for those that are being harmed in the moment, then that s when we have our best collective potential. and i m just glad that they came home and everyone went home, and i hope we can be there for our neighbors as they now start to heal for the long term. that is indeed a beautiful moment. pastor roberts, you both have said real words of powerful words of healing but you also said something a moment ago i wanted to get you to expound upon a little further. you said you have to confront
about your experience saturday. you heard about the news saturday and rushed over to the synagogue to see if you could help and take time to spend with the rabbi and three others taken hostage. what did you do when you arrived, and what was the scene that played out in the building where you were sort of adjacent to the synagogue as family members came through? you know, it s really something because when you get there, all of the politics really disappears and it really just becomes about securing the release of four innocent human beings. and you re looking at a wife and charlie, being charlie s wife and daughter, wondering if they re going to get their husband and father back, somehow finding the way to not just make sure they were eating and drinking and doing what they needed to do to survive those hours, but checking up on the rest of us. i think for me i just wanted to be there, i wanted to be there
dr. suleiman, i will start with you, i know you want to start with the importance of unity, especially now. yes, there are emphasis on the last moments of the standoff but if you go to the very beginning, charlie refused to turn away from a man in front of his synagogue that he thought needed help. he let him in, despite any security concerns, made him a cup of tea and sat him down. and i think that s really emblematic what the best of us could be, what our potential is, when we refuse to turn away from the homeless, when we refuse to turn away from a hostage situation, when we refuse to turn away from hurt and oppression, no matter who it is taking place against. and that is something i learned from my faith. do not scold the beggar, and the