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Chesterfield County Public Schools has announced the resignation of school board member Dorothy Heffron after a controversial social media post made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder. The resignation letter was shared with 8News by Heffron and was announced by the county on Sunday, Sept. 14. Heffron’s resignation comes on the heels of her social media post, which said, “Call me old-fashioned, but I remember when we used to be okay with shooting Nazis.”

A promotional image from BBC drama 'Gunpowder' which focuses on the persecution of English Catholics during the Reformation (Image: Robert Viglaski/BBC/Kudos) Amid celebrations of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, we should remember the mass persecutions of 16thC EnglandMartin Luther was a theologian. If you read the Ninety-Five Theses he reputedly tacked up on the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirche in October 1517, it is clear his interest lay in the nature of sin, repentance, absolution, penance and salvation. Whatever else his wider agenda was – or became – his initial arguments were presented as scriptural debate on the revealed path to...