Spiritual Insight: Gun Violence and Christian Response

Dear God of shattered communities and stubborn hope, We confess that we do not know what to say when the news breaks again — when another school lobby becomes a memorial of teddy bears and wilting flowers, when another mother buckles at the knees on a sidewalk she will never walk down the same way again. We confess that "thoughts and prayers" can become the very thing the prophet Amos warned against — ritual words that substitute for the justice You demand.…