Faithful Departed: Feast of Holy Innocents
This is not the article that I intended to write. I was putting the finishing touches on the first draft while watching my 3-year-old niece…
movie theater shooting in Aurora
The Dark Night Rises: Public Shootings, Victims, and Prayers
May 20, 1988, a mentally ill women named Laurie Dann walked into Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, armed with three handguns and shot one boy in a washroom then entered my classroom. She opened fire on us, small children taking a test about bicycle safety. She killed one boy by the name of Nicholas Corwin and wounded four others before departing to a nearby home, shooting an adult who lived there, and then taking her own life. That day back in May 1988, everyone in Winnetka was a victim, everyone in the nation was a victim, and the country stopped for a moment of silence.
Will Religious Leaders Lead on Gun Control?
Have you ever shot a gun? I went to college in New Hampshire, the “Live Free or Die” state where conservatives and libertarians preach limited government and personal freedoms, among them lax gun laws that would make the state feel more at home in the South than in New England.
