guns
Should you love your NRA neighbor?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 11, 2018
(RNS) — I thought I knew everything about NRA members. Then I met this guy ....
Stop mansplaining guns!
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 4, 2018
No, I don't know everything about the AR15. But, I do know something about death.
I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
By Richard Mouw — February 22, 2018
(RNS) — The teens speaking out about gun control these days are amazingly articulate about being young in an America where violence is all too present as a fact of life. What would Graham have said to them? Keep at it!
How religious people should respond to the horror in Parkland
By Delta Systems — February 21, 2018
The night that my tears watered a flower.
How religious people should respond to the horror in Parkland
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 20, 2018
The night that my tears watered a flower.
Kids can fix our gun fixation
By Delta Systems — February 18, 2018
(RNS) — We made smoking cigarettes socially unacceptable. We can do the same with guns. The kids have to make it happen.
Virginia Senate passes bill to allow guns in churches
By Alan Suderman — January 24, 2018
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The measure comes in response to a deadly church shooting in Texas.
Allowing guns in church flies in the face of tradition and Scripture
By Tom Verde — December 19, 2017
(RNS) — Pistol-packing parishioners may seem like a way to guard against the church shootings that have become so commonplace recently. But there is a long history in Christianity of opposing such strategies.
Two accidentally shot in church while discussing church shootings
By Travis Dorman — November 17, 2017
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) — A man accidentally shot himself and his wife at an east Tennessee church on Thursday (Nov. 16) while he was showing off his gun during a discussion on recent church shootings, police said.
How do you have faith after Sutherland Springs, Texas?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 7, 2017
What do Christians know that Jews have forgotten? Look to Sutherland Springs, Texas.
After Sutherland Springs, pray … and do something
By Richard Mouw — November 6, 2017
(RNS) — I have no objections to a president’s urging us to pray. But just praying is not enough.
Preaching about guns? Get political!
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 5, 2017
Preachers can talk about the real world. Or, they can be irrelevant. You choose what kind of religion you want.
Who is pro-life — really?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 16, 2017
Why do we "need" semiautomatic assault rifles? Isn't "dead" enough?
Chicago Cardinal Cupich unveils church-led anti-violence initiative
By David Gibson — April 4, 2017
CHICAGO (RNS) Plans to aid the violence-plagued city will be underscored by a Good Friday procession using the traditional stations of Jesus' way to the cross to commemorate those who have been murdered.
Live by the gun, die by the gun
By Tom Krattenmaker — October 14, 2016
(RNS) If we want to be safe from guns the answer is not more guns. The answer is transformation.
