I first met the Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison when she spoke at my shul following the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. She'd already spent years defying Dallas code that prohibited churches from sheltering the homeless on cold nights. Then came the painted steps.
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Wilonsky: Oak Lawn church can keep its rainbow steps. And Dallas can hang on to its soul
For an hour on the Sunday before Epiphany, inside the warm, welcoming confines of the 110-year-old Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, it still felt like the...