How did Joe Holley first hear of the Sutherland Springs
shootings and why did he decide to cover the story? What are the plusses and minuses of the kind of research he did to write the book?
- What are the major theological beliefs of the members of the Sutherland Springs church? How might they answer the question of how a just God could allow such a tragedy to happen?
3 Of all the characters Joe Holley talks about in this story, which was the most interesting or important and why?
‘i How did the people of Sutherland Springs become aware of a conspiracy theory about the shootings? What claim did the conspiracists make? Was Joe Holley surprised then this happened?
5. Does Joe Holley have realistic hope that what he calls Texas’s “gun insanity” can ever stop? Fully explain why or why not.
