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I have a secret
My seatmate, Mary, was no exception as she said to me, “I need to confess. I have only told 2 other people about this. Last year - I bought a gun...
If you are interested in gun violence prevention: start somewhere.
We continued the conversation with our group. Someone said that gun buyback programs don’t work. Someone else said, yes, they do work. In the face of a cultural view that gun buybacks don’t work, we decided to give it a try. We were all jammed in my office and we thought of the words from Isaiah: swords into plowshares. Someone asked, how about Guns to Gardens?
Organize, Learn and Organize Again: Lessons from the GVP Movement:
It was Sandy Hook. I had children close to that age. It was a life-changing moment for me. For weeks after Sandy Hook, I was heartbroken. Finally, I said to myself, well I can be heartbroken or I can do something about it.
Guns2Gardens: Become a disarming congregation
Holding space for grief and trauma is why we are asking churches to become disarming congregations. We want to end gun violence and to do so involves more than just taking guns out of homes. Churches can be agents of transformation for not just the gun as it is disarmed and turned into a garden tool, but also for people.