DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND GUNS-A REALITY Touch me with the softness of your hand Touch me with the sparkle in your eye Touch me with the Spirit of the Holy Land Touch me with the freedom of the sky Chorus of song by Crucis…

MINNESOTA GUN SAFETY LAWS Rightly focused gun safety laws save lives. States that have the tightest gun safety laws have the lowest rates of homicides and suicides. (See: www.protectmn.org, www.thetrace.org) Those state also protect the right to purchase and own guns. The Minnesota…

“…suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” Galatians 5:3-5 TRAGEDY UPON TRAGEDY. A thirteen year…

“And Job said: ‘Let the day perish in which I was born…. Let that day be darkness!’” Job did not commit suicide. Yet, his expressions of despair could have been a prelude. His life had become a ritual of darkness and perishing. I…

SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE Stephen Stills wrote “For What It Is Worth” which was recorded by Buffalo Springfield in 1967. The context was the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. The lyrics reflect 2018. What was past was prologue. Some of the words:…

What is a Biblical case for gun violence prevention (GVP)? Actions for GVP must be grounded in the Word. Here is my take on a Biblical foundation. PRESUPPOSITIONS: 1) The will of God is nonviolent love; 2) People activate the weapon. The weapon…

Jeremiah is banging on the Church’s doors. He is called to announce judgment upon Jerusalem and the nations surrounding. Why? Because God wants them to care for the alien, the orphan and the widow, to not shed innocent blood and not go after…

FEAR is the fuel that powers the NRA engine. What else could prompt Dana Loesch, NRA spokeswoman, to bellow, “[Journalists] are the rat bastards of the earth. They are the boil on the backside of American politics…. Journalists need to be curb-stomped…. I’m…

REVISITING FOUR GUN LAWS. I am grateful to Pastor Mark English who provided the article “4 Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shooting”. I published it on Facebook and the response was overwhelming! I think it is worth repeating. It…

In the Forward to Augustine’s CITY OF GOD, Etienne Gilson describes Augustine’s two loves and two cities. Gilson writes that “the two loves produce two cities.” Quoting Augustine, “These are two loves, the one which is holy, the other, unholy; one social, the…