Covenant's pastor preached on grief before the attack

The Bible's shortest verse — 'Jesus wept' — is also one of its most important. That was the message delivered by the Rev. Chad Scruggs in a March 5 sermon — 'Death's Conqueror' — as the faithful at Nashville's Covenant Presbyterian Church continued their Lenten journey toward Holy Week and Easter's promise of new life after death.

'How do we face death in our world,' he asked, 'especially untimely …