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.

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.”

Read “Court upholds Georgia ban on guns in church,” a July 24, 2012, story by Religion News Service.

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.

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, a Catholic who often writes about the religious and moral dimensions of topical issues, has a July 26, 2012, blog post titled “On Gun Control and Prohibition.”

Allison Randall is acting director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. It offers funding for faith-based initiatives.

Ken Sande, an attorney and engineer, is founder of Peacemaker Ministries, a nonprofit based in Billings , Mont. , that helps Christians and their churches resolve conflicts using biblical principles. He is also president of Relational Wisdom 360. He is the author of The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict and co-author of Peacemaking for Families: A […]

Nasser Hussain is assistant professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. He co-edited Forgiveness, Mercy and Clemency (2007) and teaches the courses Law, God and Modernity and When Law Fails.

Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation was founded in 1976 as an organization for family members who have a relative who was murdered and who oppose the death penalty. Jack Sullivan Jr. is the executive director.