🌐 Gun Violence: Perfect love drives out fear
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December 11, 2025
Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith
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We are all weary of the gun control discussions. This essay was first published after a school shooting that was the 40th school shooting of that year and the 26th mass shooting of that year.
In response to that shooting, my wife shared a passionate article on Facebook, “Why Gun Lover’s Don’t Get to Grieve Another Massacre with Me.” In her post, she quotes the author, John Pavlovitz, saying, “I’m tired of a culture that sees repeated mass shootings as the acceptable collateral damage of freedom.” There is no doubt that freedom has a cost. But I wonder if over the last several hundred years, our calculus has been distorted....
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