‘Proof That One Life Can Change the World” — the title itself drew me in and did not disappoint.
This New York Times column was about Father Charles Strobel, a Nashville legend. Not the Opry kind, but the human kind. The columnist, Margaret Renkl, clearly wanting him to go national, describes him as “our civic conscience.” She writes, “What he understood is the difference between charity and community — a difference founded in kinship, in recognizing that we all fall down, that sometimes it takes another hand to pull us up again.” Elsewhere, the columnist Pat Nolan adds: “There are few among us that live their lives as a saint or an angel walking among us. But Charles Strobel did.”
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