Presentation to the Third Annual Summit on Preventing Youth Violence for the U.S. Department of Justice September 27, 2013 We discuss partnerships, but the question is not just partnerships, but how we arrive at porous relationships where each and all parties are ready and willing to change how they do business. Otherwise it’s a marriage on […]
The Faith Community’s Unique Role in Preventing Gun Violence
For the first time in years our nation is engaged in a public discussion about the easy availability of guns, guns that kill 86 Americans every day, eight of them children. The discussion persists. It won’t go away, and it shouldn’t. The faith community, in the thick of this discussion, brings to it a unique, […]
Galvanizing the Civic Sector to Reduce Gun Violence
The debate over gun violence swirls in state houses and in Congress. Heated discussions surround: • Ensuring universal background checks and closing gun show loopholes; • Banning assault weapons; • Banning multi-magazine clips; • Giving federal authorities the ability to trace guns; and • Increasing the availability of mental health services. Citing the many American […]
After the Gun Show, Lessons from the Picket Line
I was a young Episcopal seminarian in the 1960s and in the spirit of Martin Luther King could often be found on picket lines marching in support of the social justice issues of the time. In the ensuing decades, while serving as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, U.S. commissioner of the Administration […]
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