“Religious leaders call for prayer and tighter gun control after Colorado shooting”
Read a July 20, 2012, RNS article about religious leaders urging tighter gun control, as well as prayer, in the wake of the Colorado shooting.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“Can we talk about guns?”
“Can we talk about guns?” is a July 21, 2012, blog post at The Christian Century by Richard A. Kauffman. “Could we have a civil conversation about our differences on guns and the deleterious effect of guns in our society?” he writes. “Any chance that churches could start that conversation?”
“For Christians, gun control should be a no-brainer. Why isn’t it?”
Read blogger Ellen Painter Dollar’s July 22, 2012, column on Patheos.com, in which she says that gun control is such a hot-button issue that some people of faith are unwilling to take it on.
“Making Non-Sense of the Colorado Shootings”
Read a July 22, 2012, essay on Christianity Today’s site, “Making Non-Sense of the Colorado Shootings.”
“Is gun control a religious issue?”
A July 23, 2012, Religion News Service article explores the question “Is gun control a religious issue?” It’s pegged to a column by the Rev. James Martin, posted by the Jesuit weekly America.
Julia A. Upton
Julia A. Upton is professor and provost at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y. She is author of A Time for Embracing: Reclaiming Reconciliation.
“Banning guns isn’t the answer”
Read a July 23, 2012, story at Tablet Magazine, an online Jewish periodical, titled “Banning Guns Isn’t the Answer: Stricter gun-control laws won’t prevent the next mass shooting, but better mental-health policies might.”
“Court upholds Georgia ban on guns in church”
Read “Court upholds Georgia ban on guns in church,” a July 24, 2012, story by Religion News Service.
“Michael Bloomberg presses President Obama, Mitt Romney on gun control”
Read a July 25, 2012, Politico article about a coalition of U.S. mayors who are pressing both major presidential candidates to give voters more details about their stances on gun control.