In a Changed Sutherland Springs, the Cowboys Weep and Worship

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS - Cowboys aren't supposed to cry, but in this rural South Texas town where 26 people were gunned down in their own church, they can't help it now.At the Cowboy Fellowship of Wilson County, where men wear their Stetsons and blue jeans to worship, the people gasped and wept through their prayers Monday night. "This is pure evil," elder Jarrell Hill, 55, said. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart. I don't know why this happened. But God does." That's the sentiment that residents of this small, deeply religious farming community repeated over and over Monday, as they sought to make sense of the massacre that took the lives of their friends and family and forever changed their town.   Continue reading...

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