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https://www.luthersem.edu/story/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/12/Seanwhelan.jpg7389If Sean Whelan and his parishioners at North Emanuel Lutheran Church had stuck to their comfortable Sunday routine, they would have all spent the morning of March 25 in their sanctuary in northern St. Paul, Minn. Instead, they found themselves standing in the street outside a nearby home—a crime scene where three people had been killed two mornings earlier—and worshiping with members of the victims’ families.