Seven dead: Christians reflect on Fourth of July parade shooting
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — On a lazy Fourth of July morning, Nicole Estes and her husband, Steve, decided to make a quick trip to Home…
God and guns
‘Whether guns kill people or people kill people, something must change’
His views didn’t change overnight, but Justin Bell has come to believe that gun ownership in the U.S. should be tightly controlled. That’s understandable, considering…
Editorial: What is the ‘Christian’ position on guns?
Buffalo, N.Y. Uvalde, Texas. Tulsa, Okla. As the death toll from mass shootings grows, the gun control debate once again consumes our attention. God-fearing people…
God and guns
TULSA, Okla. — God and guns. After a string of mass shootings nationwide, conversations with people of faith inevitably turn to that subject. Ken Factor…
‘The mass shooting that would end mass shootings’ didn’t
When a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007, Seth Terrell was a 21-year-old campus minister for the nearby Blacksburg Church of Christ.…
After yet another mass shooting, Tulsa church prays, reflects: Is there a solution?
TULSA, Okla. — Shock. Tears. Prayers. Talk about guns. All ripple through The Park Church of Christ, a 2,000-member congregation that is a microcosm of…
An emotional return
Visible scars were gone — the bullet holes, the bloodstained carpet — as the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, made an emotional…
