by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jul 5, 2022
Many factors contribute to gun violence including the deflection of personal responsibility, untreated mental health issues, lax gun policies, and easy access to firearms. Add to it one more critical factor that requires disarming: the culture of hate and violence.
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jun 29, 2022
Gun violence has increasingly impacted once safe spaces such as homes, churches, synagogues, mosques, schools, medical clinics, and stores. What is the answer? Historically, religious leaders have often served as the conscience of the nation in other wrenching...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jun 22, 2022
Why haven’t we solved the issue of mass shootings and gun violence? We have been living with escalating gun violence at least since Columbine, if not earlier. Yet, it’s not an intractable problem. Other countries like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and the...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jun 14, 2022
In 1999, I was co-pastoring a church in Parker, Colorado when the Columbine shooting happened in the community next door. At that time, school shootings were relatively infrequent. It was wholly unbelievable that it had happened in our community. Even more unthinkable...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Nov 7, 2017
Gun shots rocked yet another church over the weekend. Sunday services in Sutherland Springs TX turned into a blood bath, with at least 27 dead. Before that horrifying incident, the folks of this small town felt protected by their rural setting. But as we’re...
