Violence – Connections

The Big Table offers discussion on gun violence

August 20, 2019

The Rev. Meribah Mansfield (Columbus) and Ariel Miller (Cincinnati) participated in the Rally for Gun Reform in Columbus on August 18. It was organized by Students Demand Action, Moms Demand Action and Everyto...

Resources for churches working to prevent gun violence

March 6, 2018

e-Connections, Public Policy, Resources, Violence

Preventing gun violence is not a partisan issue; it’s not simply a matter of gun control vs. gun rights, of right vs left. This is about the lives of our people. Every year thousands are lost, many thousands mo...

Bishop Breidenthal commends statement by Bishops United Against Gun Violence

February 21, 2018

Bishop Breidenthal, e-Connections, Violence

My dear brothers and sisters, I am heartbroken to be writing to you once again after a mass shooting. I commend to you the statement (below) released after the tragic event at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High S...

First responders’ panel on gun violence

April 25, 2017

e-Connections, Events, Violence

MARCC hosts first responders’ panel on gun violence, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 27 Following the mass shooting at Cincinnati’s Cameo Club in March, learn from public health and emergency responders abo...

Becoming instruments of peace

February 28, 2017

Violence

God, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where ...

Listening to the Whos

February 28, 2017

Violence

Sometime shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Theodor Geisel, better known by his pen-name, Dr. Seuss, made some extremely disparaging remarks about the Japanese people. The normally open-minded ...

UNHOLY TRINITY: The Intersection of Racism, Poverty and Gun Violence

February 28, 2017

Violence

Registration is now open for “Unholy Trinity: the Intersection of Racism, Poverty and Gun Violence” a conference sponsored by Bishops United Against Gun Violence on April 20-22, 2017 at the Lutheran School of T...

The violence of neglect

February 28, 2017

Violence

Any given day I walk in Franklinton, I hear at least one of the two following things – someone might have a loud argument or a neighborhood visitor could remark about how run-down everything is and sort of laug...

Jerusalem: I don’t love you and I always will

February 28, 2017

Violence

In this excerpt from Fierce: Women of the Bible and their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation, author Alice Connor reflects on two chapters of Ezekiel – Chapter 16, the allegory of a...

Escaping violence comes at a cost

February 28, 2017

Violence

THE ANXIETY OF SEPARATION “Coming to America was a day of worship and praise,” former refugee Blaise told a group of listeners at the Diocese of Southern Ohio Convention in Dublin this past fall, just two mont...