Daniel Schultz has an excellent round-up of the faith-based efforts to reduce gun violence on the website of Christian Century. It includes both Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, whose leader, Vinny DeMarco, recently spoke to the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops and CROSSwalk, an initiative of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.
From the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life:
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Two developments in the campaign for marriage equality suggest that things keep moving in the right direction. At an appearance at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, prominent evangelical pastor Rob Bell endorsed marriage equality. Meanwhile, in suburban Washington, D. C., the leaders of the National Organization for Marriage faced an almost empty room at CPAC, a gathering known for its hardline conservatism.
We need to work together to lessen the occurrence of gun deaths not because people are evil but because we’re neither as smart nor invulnerable as we like to think ourselves. We need each other to make our way through life. That’s what society, that’s what the church, is all about.
Commemoration of Cyril of Jerusalem In all that he did he gave thanks to the Holy One, the Most High, proclaiming his glory; he sang
And so I can only end with your own gracious words, and plead with you to take them to heart: “I’m very concerned that we’re stewards of this opportunity so that we can help heal the church. You know, because the church is always going to have disagreements. It always has had disagreements, significant disagreements, but I don’t think we’ve handled this disagreement well at all, and we’ve make it much more destructive than it needed to be.” – The Rev. John Ohmer
“Which reminds me: the writing process itself has been where I get converted. Week by week, it’s that flow of words and ideas through my fingers where the Spirit moves in my life. If I were to stop it, I’d need somewhere else to get converted.”
Daily Office Readings for March 17: Jeremiah 23:16-32 Psalm 118 (Morning) Psalm 145 (Evening) 1 Corinthians 9:19-27; Mark 8:31-9:1 1 Corinthians 9:19-27 NRSV: For though