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Author Archives: Pastor Kris
Home Rule in Ohio? We’ve got our work cut out for us!
What follows are my brief remarks from yesterday’s press conference at the State House when PG Sittenfeld, candidate for US Senate, announced a new initiative for a Constitutional Amendment to restore home rule for gun laws. Or you can watch … Continue reading
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About to be in a new place …
Work in the gun violence movement can be a series of starts and stops. Times of exciting momentum and stretches of what can seem like standing still. GVP activists often say that this is a marathon, not a sprint. … Continue reading
Orange Walk December 2015 Opening Prayer
You are a God who is present with us in the world as it is, and you are a God who challenges us to be agents of positive change in that world. Continue reading
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Really? this is what we’re talking about?
The following is a Letter to the Editor published in the Sunday Plain Dealer. The title is theirs — “Keep guns out of day-card centers”. After the initial good feeling that my letter was published, I had this knot in … Continue reading
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Gun Violence: It’s a simple math problem.
Source: Gun Violence: It’s a simple math problem.
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Stolen Years. Part 2
By my own rough estimate, our country lost at least 350 years of life in an hour last Thursday. What their families lost is incalculable. Continue reading
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On any given day …. making a difference
Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes we’re in the right place at the right time with the right message. Sometimes we can make a difference. Continue reading
When I’m 64 …
I thank God for my life to this point. For what I imagined that came true and grace for what did not. For all the unexpected twists and turns, turmoils and triumphs. I thank God for being with me every step of the way … Continue reading
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Remembering Hurricane Katrina …
I’d never been so dirty and I’ve not been that tired since. Even an air mattress with a slow
leak and the sounds of 15 people snoring throughout the church could not have kept me awake. Continue reading
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Stolen Years …
Any one of those young adults could have been my child. Or your child. At what age do they stop being our children?
I’ve had enough. Have you? Continue reading
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