Hundreds of Episcopalians from Connecticut and Washington, DC held a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25.
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“We as Christians are not going to go away until we have a culture of peace and reconciliation,” said Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas, who presided at funerals for the victims of the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last year.
Washington Bishop Marianne Budde said the bishops were “disappointed” that Congress appears unwilling to go much beyond strengthened background checks for gun buyers, but “there’s not just one solution,” she said. “There are different paths and solutions to take … so we’re anxious to support what’s possible.”
RNS photos by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC, and Connecticut, marked the Stations of the Cross along Pennsylvania Avenue during a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Washington Episcopal Bishop Marianne Budde led hundreds of Episcopalians during the Stations of the Cross for a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control between the White House and Capitol Hill. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Suffragan Bishop Jim Curry, left, of Connecticut and Washington Episcopal Bishop Marianne Budde and Bishop Ian Douglas of Connecitcut led hundreds of Episcopalians through the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill during a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Episcopal Bishop Marianne Budde, left, and Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas, right, led hundreds of Episcopalians along the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Suffragan Bishop Jim Curry, left, Washignton Bishop Marianne Budde, center, and Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas, right, led hundreds of Episcopalians through the Stations of the Cross during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
The Rev. Randolph Charles of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Washington, DC leads hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC, and Connecticut along the Stations of the Cross during a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25 for a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstorm.
Suffragan Episcopal Bishop Jim Curry of Connecticut leads hundreds of Episcopalians through the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill during a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
The Rev. Randolfph Charles of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Washington leads hundreds of Episcopalians along the Stations of the Cross during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC, and Connecticut marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, Marchc 25, for a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom
The Rev. Michael Angell of St. John’s Episcopal Church Lafayette Square welcomes hundreds of Episcopalians to the White House for a Stations of the Cross pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Connecticut and Washington DC marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March, 25, during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC and Connecticut marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25 during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
The Rev. Michael Angell of St. John’s Episcopal Church Lafayette Square in Washington joined hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC, and Connecticut for the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill for a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25 for a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Suffragan Episcopal Bishop Laura Aherns of Connecticut helped lead hundreds of Episcopalians along the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25 during a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Connecticut Episcopal Bishop Ian Douglas led hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC and Connecticut through the Stations of the Cross between the White Hous and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25, during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25, during a Holy Week pilgrimage in support of gun control. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington DC and Connecticut marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25 during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington DC and Connecticut marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Connecticut Episcopal Bishops Jim Curry, left, and Ian Douglas, center, led hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC and Connecitcut along a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Connecticut and Washington, DC, marked the Stations of the Cross during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut Ian Douglas, right, and Suffragan Bishop James Curry lead a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians held a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
The Rev. Randolph Charles of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Washington DC carries the cross for hundreds of Episcopalians during a Holy Week pilgrimage between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
The Rev. Randolph Charles of Epiphany Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, leads hundreds of Episcopalians along the Stations of the Cross during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Suffragan Bishop Mary Glasspool of Los Angeles joined hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC, and Connecticut as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill during a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Connecticut and Washington, DC, held a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Suffragan Episcopal Bishops James Curry and Laura Ahrens of Connecticut led hundreds of Episcopalians along a Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians held a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Washington, DC and Connecticut held a Holy Week piligrimage for gun control as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians held a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control as they marked the Stations of the Cross between the White House and Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
Hundreds of Episcopalians from Connecticut and Washington, DC held a Holy Week pilgrimage for gun control along the Stations of the Cross from the White House to Capitol Hill on Monday, March 25. RNS photo by Kevin Eckstrom.
23 Comments
Southern Baptist
These people are idiots!
Taking guns away from law-abiding citizens (violating the 2nd Amendment) only makes the scumbags more powerful and make school shootings easier and more likely.
Paula Schlueter Ross
Nice photos, Kevin! You should do this more often!
Donald Kosloff
Self-defense and the defense of the innocent are duties of all Christians. Those Christian duties can be fulfilled only by armed citizens. That is one reason the God-given right to keep and bear arms is specifically protected by the Second Amendment in addition to the more general protections provided by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, as well as the un-amended Constitution itself. Those who were photographed were not on a pilgrimage, they were on an errand for Satan. They are trying to force the good to succumb to the wicked.
john
Incorrect.
Jesus says nothing about “self defense”, but a whole lot about “loving your enemies”, “blessing those who curse you”, “not resisting an evil person”, “turning the other cheek”, and not living “an eye for an eye”.
The right to bear arms is NOT God-given, but man-given.
America gave us the 2nd Amendment. Jesus gave us the Sermon on the Mount.
Christians have a higher law than man’s.
Read the Gospels again.
Southern Baptist
Would Jesus want you to watch your wife or daughter get raped while you stood by like a coward and allowed it to happen?
Donald Kosloff
I read the Gospels regularly. I have also literally turned the other cheek when struck by a criminal. But how do you turn the other cheek to a murderer? What does it mean to turn the other cheek to a man who is killing children with a pitchfork? You are perfectly free to avoid self-defense, but you have no right to impose your will on others. You are also perfectly free to allow evil men to rape and murder the innocent, but you have no right to prevent others from protecting the innocent.
As for the Second Amendment, you are clueless. All rights are given by God. Thus the right protected by the Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments existed before the Second Amendment was even written. That is clear from the wording of the Amendment, as well as the wording of the Declaration of Independence. The patriots who risked their lives and fortunes to give us the Constitution also repeatedly made it clear that the right to keep and bear arms is essential to Liberty. Your desire to destroy Liberty does not end with your attack on the Second Amendment, it is only a continuation of the attack on all human rights. I actively supported so-called “common sense” gun control laws until 1994 when the scales fell from my eyes.
Susan
Nice job Kevin, and I love the pictures
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Southern Baptist
Episcopalians are part of a “church” that turned their backs on God by embracing practicing gays as Bishops and other leadership positions! Open gays “praying” is like a practicing child molester “praying”…only Satan hears those prayers.
these anti-constitution people should be marching to get the gays out and allowing God back into their Satan-led church!
Sandy Hook happened because the killer KNEW nobody there could defend themselves. Just ONE armed teacher would have saved a lot of lives!!
Donald Kosloff
As has happened in several other cases, but not in Bath, Ohio or New London, Texas where more children were killed. If criminals are more powerfully enabled by more of Satan’s “gun-control” laws, then they will follow the proven pathways to more efficient killing by using bombs and fire.
Bryan England
I grew up as a Southern Baptist and am now an Episcopal clergyman. Your response is one of the reasons why.
Donald Kosloff
I can see the Christian love flowing from your post in the spirit of reconciliation.
Southern Baptist
Romans 1:26-28
King James Version (KJV)
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Bryan
You can quote all of the scripture you want but you don’t get to judge. Not your place. I don’t agree with my fellow Episcopal brothers and sisters using our religion for a political cause but I don’t question their right to do it. I certainly don’t agree with the fire and brimstone baptists and the hate and judgement they force on everyone but I support their right to do it as well.
I am an Episcopalian and I carry a .45 ACP along with my BCP.
Ana Hernandez
Thanks for these great photos, and thanks to so many of my friends for such great work! Yay you guys! Yay God!
April
Beautiful witness to the Prince of Peace!
Southern Baptist
Would Jesus tell us to allow people like Hitler to take over because we can’t fight back? Would Jesus tell a father to stand back and allow his daughter or wife to be raped?
NO! WE HAVE A GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO DEFEND OUR HOMES AND OUR FAMILIES!!
Southern Baptist
Episcopalians are part of a “church” that turned their backs on God by embracing practicing gays as Bishops and other leadership positions!
these anti-constitution people should be marching to get the gays out and allowing God back into their Satan-led church!
Southern Baptist
1 Corinthians 14:34
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
WOMEN PREACHERS VIOLATE GOD’S LAW
Willem Lange
Relax, people. Southern Baptist is just kidding. Nobody serious – especially one calling himself a Christian – could possibly be such a retrograde dolt.
Donald Kosloff
Does the phrase “retrograde dolt” come from the Sermon on the Mount?
Rev Michael Heningham
Holy week is about salvation and about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to reconcile mankind to God. Staging this political sideshow and using Holy Week as a backdrop is a disgrace.
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