Following is the first in a series of posts on how various members of your community can help to prevent gun violence. Subscribe to Jack’s blog today to receive the entire series. “Somebody’s got to do something! Then I realized I was somebody.” ~ Lilly Tomlin We begin at home, close to home and then […]
Red Shirt (Sequel) and a New Red Shirt, Pedro
Many of you wanted to know what happened to Red Shirt. Much has happened. You will recall from my earlier blog post that I had been asked to speak with a “few young people” following my February keynotes in Winnipeg, Canada. The “few,” liberally interpreted, grew into a Friday afternoon assembly attended by about 350 […]
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, […]
What Will Convince Red Shirt to Leave His Gang?
My recent trip to Canada held one major surprise and the image, vivid after more than two weeks, of a kid in a red shirt. I returned from a meeting-packed three days in Winnipeg, where I keynoted two conferences (one at Winnipeg University’s “Thinkers’ Conference”), participated in panels, shared thoughts with people working with at […]
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