We cannot legislate morality and we cannot pass a bill that stops irresponsibility. But we can work together to be more of a connected, concerned, supportive, accountable, mutually encouraging community.
Read more the day we launched a community conversation around gun violence
So take pause today, take a long deep breath, let the anger and the disappointment and the sadness be redirected for this moment, and invite the good news and the promise of light and grace to wash over you and bring you hope.
The meme - and its implication - is not only cynical but deeply contemptuous to the victims of violence (children), to the United States Constitution, and to the love of God in Jesus Christ.
Read more Your God is too small and your heart is too cold. #GodNotAllowedinSchool meme
I see children and teachers who may never be free from fear - that is the real effect of our refusal to do something creative and constructive about guns.
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