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Tag: gun violence

#thoughtsandprayers

December 3, 2015 21 Comments

What is the thoughtful and necessary reaction in the wake of yet another deadly attack on innocents? For many, it is to pray, and for

Standing against gun violence in Long Island

October 23, 2015 1 Comment

Bishop Lawrence C. Provenzano has called upon Episcopalians to march from the Cathedral Church of the Incarnation in Garden City to Union Baptist Church in Hempstead for the funeral of 12 year old Dejah Joyner.

Bishop of Texas releases statement on the death of Deputy Darren Goforth

September 2, 2015 42 Comments

The Right Reverend C. Andrew Doyle, Bishop of Texas, has released a statement in response to the death of Deputy Darren Goforth, who was shot

Violence is America’s religion

August 28, 2015 4 Comments

Violence is our religion. We are alternately entertained and horrified by it and each day the weight of it all threatens to bury us all.

Memorials to the Lost on Gun Violence Sabbath

August 7, 2015 5 Comments

Bishop Mark Beckwith of Newark is proposing that parishes in his diocese take part in “memorials to the lost” on Sunday, December 13, 2015 to mark “Gun Violence Sabbath.”

Episcopalians Against Gun Violence march in Salt Lake City

June 28, 2015 23 Comments

This morning in Salt Lake City Episcopalians Against Gun Violence gathered before Sunday Eucharist at General Convention to witness against the culture of violence in the

Sad counterpoint to Charleston, SC tragedy from local paper

June 18, 2015 5 Comments

Local Charleston paper places gun shop coupon above headline “Church Attack Kills 9.”

For Holy Week Rev. Winnie Varghese remembers children killed by firearms

April 6, 2015 No Comments

Rev. Winnie Varghese takes death from the abstract to the real-world in her Holy Week services at St Mark’s in the Bowery. What other examples of unjust death can churches use to contextualize and contemporize the Gospel?