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Man brings gun and knives into a Virginia church service after vague online threats, police say
By Associated Press — September 26, 2023
(AP) — In recent years, there's been a stark uptick in concerning episodes at churches, synagogues, temples and mosques.
When is it time to leave America?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2022
(RNS) — We Jews have been here before, and we have learned from our history.
If you love the Bible and God, then love children. Live children.
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 25, 2022
(RNS) — I am so done.
Idaho sheriff, charged with felonies, must surrender guns
By Associated Press — December 31, 2021
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — An eastern Idaho sheriff accused of threatening a church youth group with a gun can stay on the job but must surrender his firearms.
Five faith facts about former President Barack Obama’s new book: ‘A Promised Land’
By Adelle M. Banks — November 18, 2020
(RNS) — Obama mentions his ‘broader skepticism toward organized religion’ but says he often turned to private prayer.
Pushing guns during a pandemic
By Bishops United Against Gun Violence — April 8, 2020
(RNS) — Americans bought 1 million more guns last month than are normally sold at this time of year.
America needs a holiday of self-reflection
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 7, 2019
Americans can learn from the Jews: turn inward, and ask hard questions.
As Emanuel AME documentary screens, survivors, families mull grief and guns
By Adelle M. Banks — May 15, 2019
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The survivors and family members of victims spoke of forgiveness — though some are at different stages than others — and answered questions about securing houses of worship.
A year after Parkland, we are all numb
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 14, 2019
On this first yahrzeit of Parkland -- God, instill within us the capacity for outrage.
Why Sacha Baron Cohen matters
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 24, 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen is hilarious. Or, maybe he isn’t.
Clergy reject Missouri bill on concealed guns in churches
By Jack Jenkins — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — The bill would 'broaden second Amendment rights at the expense of the First Amendment right of religious liberty,' said St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson.
Could armed Jews have prevented the Holocaust?
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — The idea that Jews with guns could have made any meaningful resistance is the cruelest, most cynical, most ignorant alternative fact there is.
The kid who didn’t attend the march because of his bar mitzvah
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 25, 2018
(RNS) — Every revolution starts with the young. This one resonated from the lips of a bar mitzvah boy.
God, guns and Gen Z
By C.S. Pearce — March 14, 2018
(RNS) — You don’t have to be clairvoyant to predict that those 'In God We Trust' signs will drive more Florida students into the nonbelievers’ camp.
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