Blog - Guns

The thing about redemption is that sometimes, we don’t actually want it.

Have you ever been flicked?

This past Sunday, our congregation of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church sang Marty Haugen’s “Gather Us In,” (ELW 532) straight away at the start of the service.

I have a dear friend, up here in Two Harbors.

“…our thoughts and prayers are not enough.  It’s not enough.”

Last night I dreamt that Patrick Stewart strolled by me, wearing an intensely colored plaid pair of pants and a snazzy golf beret. He took one look at me walking along the same sidewalk, and realized that I positively screamed Lutheran Theologian.

So in the wake of Newtown, tsunami waves of debate around gun control have already flooded our national conversations.