My Callous Heart

My Callous Heart

I remember my first reaction to a mass killing. It was the summer of 1984.  I was a young man in my twenties, sitting in my La-Z-Boy reading the Miami Herald. This was before mass shootings were frequent occurrences, so I was not yet desensitized. A gunman strolled...
Guns, Masks and Moral Injury in Pastors

Guns, Masks and Moral Injury in Pastors

I was approaching college graduation and preparing for seminary when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree in the Columbine High School library on April 20, 1999. The news coverage played for days in my dorm’s lobby.  It was all unfathomable: the loss...