Skip to content
  • ABOUT
  • NEWS WIRE LOGIN
Donate
  • Donate
  • logo
  • logo
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Columns
    • Martin Marty – Sightings
    • Jonathan Merritt – On Faith and Culture
    • Richard Mouw – Civil Evangelicalism
    • Thomas Reese – Signs of the Times
    • Jana Riess – Flunking Sainthood
    • Jeffrey Salkin – Martini Judaism
    • Mark Silk – Spiritual Politics
    • Jeffrey Weiss – My Way to the Egress
  • Series
    • Putting Down Roots: Religion and the Environment
    • Double Helix
    • Revelations
    • The ‘Splainer
    • Faithful Viewer
    • Was Blind, But Now I See
    • Combating Online Hate Speech
    • Faith 2016
  • Religion & Science
  • Religion & the Environment
  • Events
    • Francis@Five: Assessing the legacy of Pope Francis five years after his election
    • Cyber Attacks and the Just War Theory
  • Image Search
    • Image Search (Standard)
    • Image Search (Free)
  • Donate
  • More
    • ABOUT
    • NEWS WIRE LOGIN

Religion News Service - Coverage of religion, ethics and spirituality from around the globe

Get RNS in your inbox Sign up

Religion News Service (http://davidgibson.religionnews.com/tag/gun-control/)

  • News
  • Opinion
  • Columns
    • Martin Marty – Sightings
    • Jonathan Merritt – On Faith and Culture
    • Richard Mouw – Civil Evangelicalism
    • Thomas Reese – Signs of the Times
    • Jana Riess – Flunking Sainthood
    • Jeffrey Salkin – Martini Judaism
    • Mark Silk – Spiritual Politics
    • Jeffrey Weiss – My Way to the Egress
  • Series
    • Putting Down Roots: Religion and the Environment
    • Double Helix
    • Revelations
    • The ‘Splainer
    • Faithful Viewer
    • Was Blind, But Now I See
    • Combating Online Hate Speech
    • Faith 2016
  • Religion & Science
  • Religion & the Environment
  • Events
    • Francis@Five: Assessing the legacy of Pope Francis five years after his election
    • Cyber Attacks and the Just War Theory
  • Image Search
    • Image Search (Standard)
    • Image Search (Free)
  • Recommended:
  • World Book Day
  • Kate Middleton
  • Bill Hybels
  • Earth Day
  • Barbara Bush
  • Wheaton College
  • Gun Violence
  • #MeToo
  • Evangelicals
  • Waco
Subscribe

gun control

guns

Clergy reject Missouri bill on concealed guns in churches

By Jack Jenkins | April 12, 2018

(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

By Jack Jenkins | March 24, 2018

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

By Yonat Shimron | February 23, 2018

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

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.

church security

God and guns: Texas pastors undergo security training a month after Sutherland Springs

By Bobby Ross Jr. | December 5, 2017

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

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.

Sutherland Springs

Thousands pack Texas church shooting family funeral service

By Emily Schmall and Eric Gay | November 15, 2017

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

By Emily McFarlan Miller | November 14, 2017

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

By Claudia Lauer | November 12, 2017

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

By Nancy Nason-Clark | November 10, 2017

(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

By Yonat Shimron | November 10, 2017

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?

By Chloe Breyer | November 9, 2017

(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’

By Yonat Shimron and Kimberly Winston | November 9, 2017

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

By Adelle M. Banks | November 8, 2017

(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

By Yonat Shimron and Kimberly Winston | November 8, 2017

(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.

More Stories
  • Religion News Service
  • Get the news wire
  • News wire login
  • Submit a Press Release
  • Advertise
  • Become a Member
  • Team
  • About
  • Image search for RNS staff
  • Contact
  • Board of Managers
  • Media and Research Partners
  • Funding Partners
  • Careers
  • Internships
  • Donate

© Copyright 2018, Religion News Service. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Religion News Service.

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑