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“Startled” is putting it mildly
“I mention all of this because I am able to consider Donald Trump’s suggestion that teachers in school should carry weapons, recalling my roles as a soldier, an educator and a parent.” Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, story
Tagged #Parkland, arming teachers, gun violence, school safety, school shootings
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As though
Repent! the echoes ricochet off the bible.
I will require a reckoning for your lifeblood,
says the Lord. Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, story
Tagged #Parkland, #StonemanDouglas, #WearOrange, God Before Guns
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Bruising God
Just before setting the bow in the sky as a sign of the covenant of mercy between God and all flesh, God tells Noah that since humanity was made in God’s image, God will require a reckoning for our lifeblood. God considers violence against any one of us violence against God’s own self. Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, sermon, story
Tagged #Parkland, 1 Peter 3:18-22, AR-15, domestic violence, Genesis 9:8-17, gun violence, Lent, Mark 1:9-15, Noah's Ark, repentance
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We came here after Columbine
Let’s paint them
red, white, and blue
have some clergyman
compose a pledge
teach our children to recite it
hand on heart Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, poetry
Tagged 2nd amendment, school shootings
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This world
A word of scripture whispered in my ear and would not let me go. Continue reading
Posted in current events, gun violence, prayer, story
Tagged All Saints, communion of saints, Episcopal Cafe, Sutherland Springs
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The myth of redemptive violence
We can move mountains, if our thoughts and prayers for the latest victims of violence are backed by faith in the one who loves us, rather than the myths sold us by our gun suppliers; if we remember who is was that sowed the Garden in the first place, and placed us in it. Continue reading
Guns kill people (updated)
At the risk of repeating myself, and with all respect to the dead and the injured and those who mourn them: Guns kill people. It is their raison d’etre. That being the case, we must control them. Continue reading
Guns everywhere?
This is from my first op-ed published in the Plain Dealer: online today at cleveland.com; in print later this week (so I’m told). What does the notion that a trip to the local sports bar requires a concealed weapon do … Continue reading
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Elegy
The world is still, on the edge of tears, even as it continues, as it must, to turn night to day and business to money and traffic to weariness. The leaves tremble at an unseen adjustment of air pressure; an … Continue reading
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Tagged grief, LGBTQ, ordination, Orlando
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Year C Proper 5: the widows of Zarephath and Nain
A boy died in Zarephath, and his mother and Elijah cried out to God in anger at the injustice, in bitterness at the waste of life, saved by a miracle and spent so soon. Another mother’s son died in Nain, … Continue reading
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