In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, there has been rhetoric about making schools “harder”. The idea seems to be that if teachers (or other school employees) are packing heat, the bad guys won’t target those schools. President Trump wants to arm the “highly adept” or “weapons…
It is a common response to tragedy. “My thoughts and prayers are with you”. We say it to people we know and love when their loved ones die or when they are facing surgery or some other difficult situation. It has become an all too familiar refrain from politicians after mass shootings. And since we’ve…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho October 18, 2015 Ruth 1:1-17 This story, we’re told, takes place during the time of the Judges. A famine in the land caused Naomi and her family to leave the Promised Land and go back across the river to Moab, modern day Jordan. Her husband,…
A number of my friends shared an interesting article on Facebook this morning about gun violence. It is a good article. BUT It, like many others I have read, treats the issue of gun violence as if data and information were the missing piece. It offers helpful maps, statistics, and other information. But we don’t…
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