Being a Christian in Everyday Life

The Anglican Witness initiative, coordinated by the Anglican Communion Office, has produced a new video, Being a Christian in everyday life, to highlight current issues in churches in the Global South and North, with a view to a possible Communion-wide response through a focus on discipleship or Christian living. [ACNS]

Learn more here.

Gun Violence

In the face of so much gun violence in our society (mass shootings, children killing children, murder-suicides, and accidents), we need to ask what we can do to limit the carnage we see daily.

I found this article to be helpful:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-a-new-way-to-tackle-gun-deaths.html

What we need is an evidence-based public health approach — the same model we use to reduce deaths from other potentially dangerous things around us, from swimming pools to cigarettes. We’re not going to eliminate guns in America, so we need to figure out how to coexist with them. ~ Nicholas Kristof

(and if you think his statistics are wrong, go here: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/oct/06/nicholas-kristof/nicholas-kristof-gun-deaths-preschoolers-police/ )

He is right.  If we are going to live with them, we must decide the rules, and the current rules are ineffective...

“We will no longer be silent while violence permeates our world, our society, our Church, our homes and ourselves. Our faith calls us to be ministers of reconciliation, to give voice to the voiceless and to strive for justice in the name of our Lord.” Bishops Ian T. Douglas, James E. Curry and Laura J. Ahrens of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut

Learn more here: http://bishopsagainstgunviolence.org/

Changing the Narrative on Race

This is important and I found it to be very helpful, even if it is only a taste.  I look forward to more from Trinity Church and the Trinity Institute...

We indeed need truth and reconciliation here.