guns
Clergy reject Missouri bill on concealed guns in churches
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(RNS) — The bill would ‘broaden second Amendment rights at the expense of the First Amendment right of religious liberty,’ said St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson.
gun control
Urged by their youth, faith groups flocked to the March for Our Lives
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WASHINGTON (RNS) — The March for Our Lives, a protest led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students geared toward ending gun violence, drew an estimated 800,000 participants on Saturday in Washington, D.C., according to organizers.
Sutherland Springs
Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to a mass shooting
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (RNS) — In this dusty crossroads town of 600 people with one blinking red light, church members have taken a starkly different approach from that of the Florida high school students agitating for change.
commentary
Allowing guns in church flies in the face of tradition and Scripture
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(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.
church security
God and guns: Texas pastors undergo security training a month after Sutherland Springs
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PLANO, Texas (RNS) — The Rev. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church and a former president of the national Southern Baptist Convention, said God put the idea for the free seminar on his heart.
guns in churches
Two accidentally shot in church while discussing church shootings
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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.
Sutherland Springs
Thousands pack Texas church shooting family funeral service
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Church member John Holcombe, among the massacre’s few survivors, invited the public to attend the funeral of his pregnant wife, three of her children, his parents, a brother and the brother’s 18-month-old daughter.
church attack
Could it happen here? How churches are preparing for a mass shooting
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SCOTTS, Mich. (RNS) – The weekend after the deadliest church shooting in U.S. history, one small church in Michigan had security trainers teach congregants how to respond to an armed intruder.
First Baptist Church
Texas town holds 1st Sunday service since church attack
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Members of the First Baptist Church will hold a church service for the first time since a gunman opened fire inside the small church a week earlier in the worst mass shooting in Texas history.
commentary
Last Sunday, domestic violence came to church
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(RNS) — There is a holy hush that permeates church life when it comes to thinking about domestic violence within and beyond congregational life, writes Nancy Nason-Clark.
churches
The glue that kept Sutherland Springs together before and after the shootings
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (RNS) — Within 24 hours of the mass shooting, another church in town sprang into action, as the coordinating center for the emergency response.
commentary
Who decides when we as a country pray and when we act?
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(RNS) — ‘The dichotomy between prayers and action portrayed in the Twitter feeds of our leaders is a false one and serves neither the dead, the bereaved, nor our nation as a whole,’ writes Chloe Breyer. (COMMENTARY)
church shooting
Pence tells grieving town ‘Faith is stronger than evil’
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FLORESVILLE, Texas (RNS) — The memorial service, held in a neighboring town of Sutherland Springs, followed Christian tradition and was replete with Bible readings and prayers to Jesus.
church shooting
Mother Emanuel AME pastor shows solidarity with Sutherland Springs
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(RNS) — The Rev. Eric S.C. Manning hopes to visit Texas church members because ‘when trauma happens sometimes those who have gone through it are able to provide a little bit more of an encouragement.’
sacred spaces
Texas church to be demolished, like other mass killing sites before it
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(RNS) — In what is becoming a grim tradition, many mass shooting sites are demolished and then rebuilt. But some churches that have experienced horrific killings have sought to reclaim the existing sacred spaces.