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.
This Is Not Normal
From mass shootings to suicides, gun violence has become so common that it’s become far too easy to normalize it.
Turning Guns into Garden Tools
By turning swords into plowshares and guns into garden tools, we’re advocating for an altogether different approach to violence in our country. An approach that elevates the Sermon on the Mount over the 2nd Amendment.
The Inexcusable Freedom of Irresponsible Gun Owners
JAN 11, 2014 | BY: CRAIG M. WATTS -- The current level of “freedom” allowed for gun owners in many states gives far too much latitude...
Following Jesus: The Best Gun Control Ever!
BY: KURT WILLEMS -- Can we really imagine Jesus with a loaded handgun under his pillow or a concealed weapons permit? I submit...
The Fairy Tale of Gun Control
BY: LINDA BRENDLE -- Even writers of ancient fairy tales knew you couldn’t destroy or hide all the weapons of evil in the world. We...
Cain’s Warning: Sandy Hook, Guns and Being Pro-Life
BY: MORF MORFORD -- My NRA friends assure me that 200 gun deaths a week since Sandy Hook is evidence that our gun policies ‘work’...
And God said, ‘Let there be Guns’
BY: MORF MORFORD -- One of the many ironies of our convulsive and conflicted conversation about guns is the near-religious fixation...
Death, Violence and America: Is God the Answer or the Problem?
Whenever there is a tragedy in America you can count on some politically saturated Christian leaders to rush in to make stupid statements. Certainly it has happened again with the heartbreaking murders in the S...
Sandy Hook and the Tearing Asunder of Evangelical Christianity
BY: JOSHUA D. AMBROSIUS -- Is it just me, or is the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting doing more to point out the great rift within...