Posts Tagged ‘gun violence prevention’
Christians United Against Gun Violence
Gun Violence Prevention Sunday: September 18 On September 18, Christian communities across the country will unite against gun violence by leading services of Lament, Repentance, and Action. Christians United Against Gun Violence is asking congregations to directly address the gun violence pandemic during their Sunday September 18 worship services, similar to the widespread incorporation of World Communion…
Read MoreLooking Back at Gun Violence Prevention Month
A Month Devoted to Ending Gun Violence Going Orange In June, TDBI went orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Month. On our emails, social media, and at numerous in-person events, we wore orange to remember, reflect, and act to end gun violence in our country. Throughout the month, we worked alongside several organizations involved in gun violence prevention, including: WearOrange.org…
Read MoreWorking Together to End Gun Violence
Working Together to End Gun Violence How can gun violence prevention advocates and gun rights advocates learn to understand each other? How do we depolarize our faith communities and reconcile with each other? Does silence offer a holy response and a common language for prayer? Bishop Mark Beckwith, longtime friend of TDBI and co-chair of…
Read MoreResponding to Gun Violence in Texas
Image credit: Marco Bello, Reuters, on NYTimes.com. Words are inadequate to express the anguish, excruciating pain, and unbearable loss after yesterday’s horrifying slaughter of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. And this, only days after another hail of bullets took the lives of 10 mostly elderly shoppers…
Read MoreHonor With Care: a Special National Roundtable on Veteran Suicide Prevention
Join TDBI and Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence for a Special Conversation About Veteran Suicide Prevention You’re invited to join TDBI and Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence on May 25, 2022, at Honor With Care: Working Together to Prevent Veteran Suicide and Gun Violence. This important forum on veteran suicide prevention will feature a powerful chorus of expert voices…
Read MoreEnding School Shootings IS Possible
Ending School Shootings IS Possible Why do Americans accept the deaths of children in school shootings as inevitable? Many of us remember a time when the sickness, disability, and deaths caused by measles, mumps, and rubella were simply the unavoidable risks of putting children together in classrooms. But the few who refused to accept those dangers…
Read MoreGun Violence Survivors Week
“The church can be a part of the solution to gun violence by being the church. The mission of the church is to preach and teach the gospel, and to live it out. The church should fight injustice, seek to transform communities, be a place where people are being changed and equipped to make a…
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