Oscar Romero and The Violence of Love

Oscar Romero is one of my heroes. His life and work influenced me to become a public school teacher and a street writer. I think of him each morning as I swing my legs off my bed and touch the floor barefooted, ready to make my way up and out of my house to my poor, little elementary school on the west side of Greenville, South Carolina. And I think of him each evening as I sit by candlelight in front of an olive wood carving of St. Francis at...