Capitalizing on Panic
I saw a story in The Washington Post where a man named Kevin Thomas started making pop-up safe rooms for schools – kind of like the panic rooms that became a status symbol in the late last millennium, denoting ...
Greeting the Prince of Peace 10 Years After Sandy Hook
Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service.
The Christmas season makes room for commemorations of violence done against the innocent.
It’s now been 10 years since the shooting at S...
It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.
Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service.
The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violence in America.
It has been a week since the Club Q shooting ...
Statement regarding Parkland School Shooting Jury Recommendation
I offer my prayers and love to the families, co-victims and survivors of all of those killed and injured in the Parkland school shooting.
As I watched the hearing this morning I remembered sitting in a...
Faith leaders attend White House celebration of gun control law
"Claiborne added that he understood that the bipartisan legislation 'is the most substantial gun reform bill that we’ve seen in 30 years. But what we also heard is how dysfunctional our political process is — because there’s so much more that’s needed.'"
Sharletta Evans: Pioneer of Restorative Justice (Excerpt from Beating Guns)
Sharletta’s story of forgiveness and extensive work to offer the opportunity for restitution and restoration for offenders is awe-inspiring. It’s an example of what it looks like to no longer learn how to make war. It’s what we’re called to do when we choose to carry a plow instead of a gun.
Praying at the NRA Convention
I believe in prayer. That’s why we went to the NRA prayer breakfast. But I also believe in action
The NRA’s Thoughts & Prayers
Our society has also chosen to sacrifice our children, not merely in a valley but in our schools, churches, theaters, concerts, restaurants, grocery stores, homes, and basically any other place in our society. And as our children are killed at the altar of a semiautomatic idol, high priests like Franklin Graham, James Dobson, and Jonathan Falwell help the NRA damn us all to this hell.
The Best Defense…
What if we were to attack instead of retreat? What if, in place of despair or even a secure defense, we were to perpetrate an all-out offensive on the things that threaten to divide us: antisemitism, racism, domestic (what a word) violence, the prevalence, and ease of acquisition of guns, America’s preferred instrument of destruction?
The New War on Christmas
This week also marks the 9th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting (December 14), one of those all-too-familiar moments when our country said, “Never again”… and then let it happen again and again.