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Countering Violence with Love

June 3, 2019 By Kedron Nicholson 2 Comments

My children were not born knowing about guns.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: gun violence, guns, love, parenting, Way of Love, young children

Talking to Kids about Gun Violence

May 18, 2018 By Allison Sandlin Liles 2 Comments

It’s happened. Again. We knew that it would, but it still shocks us. This time it was a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. While […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: guns, parenting, violence

I’m thinking about toy guns with wisdom from the book of Numbers.

March 20, 2018 By Sara Irwin 4 Comments

I want to be enough of a roadblock to convince them to think a little more deeply.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Balaam, Bible, children, Children in church, Family, guns, Jesus, Numbers, parenting, youth

After the Holidays (with unchurched grandkids)

January 11, 2017 By Mary Lee Wile 10 Comments

Our four-year-old granddaughter enjoyed retelling the Christmas story. So did I – until it took an unexpected turn.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Christmas, discipleship, Epiphany, evangelism, grandparenting, grandparents, guns, violence

Still too many Holy Innocents.

December 28, 2016 By Allison Sandlin Liles 5 Comments

As we remember the Holy Innocents killed by Herod, we recognize the innocent victims of violence today.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: advocacy, Aleppo, discipleship, guns, Holy Innocents, parenting, Syria

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