Rob Schenck

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  Oct 15, 2020

  I'm voting Biden. But Democratic senators better be fair with Judge Amy Coney Barrett

  Bringing Judge Barrett’s religious beliefs and practices into question in a political tribunal would send the wrong message to a wave of religious conservatives who have decided to vote — perhaps just this once — for a Democrat.

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  Feb 14, 2019

  As we mark one year since Parkland, virtue requires us to act

  This week scores of people will experience again the grief of missing loved ones, cut down by a deranged young man with multiple deadly weapons, in the high school he shared with his victims.

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  Aug 30, 2018

  Marking National Grief Awareness Day With Resolve

  August 30 is National Grief Awareness Day, which is a worthy observance. Grief is something every human being will inevitably experience.

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  Aug 4, 2018

  Christians and 3D Printable Guns

  The news that someone is trying to promote and disseminate the means to produce homemade guns that are untraceable and possibly undetectable should alarm anyone with a conscience.

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  May 18, 2018

  To the Class of 2018: Turning Grief Into Hope

  What all graduates should have in common on this important occasion is a rack of great memories associated with whatever school you're leaving behind. Sadly, that's not the case for many graduates these days.

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  Mar 22, 2018

  What Should Be Done With the Student Marchers From Parkland?

  Castigating the kids of Parkland, including the hundreds and thousands of others who identify closely with them and are as vulnerable to gun violence as they are—and in many cases even more so—is to do the diametric opposite of what Jesus did on the day he called the children to himself.

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  Feb 19, 2018

  Minister Says We Have a Moral Emergency in This Country– It's Time to Wake Up, Face It and Fix It

  No other developed nation in the world subjects their children to this kind of violence.

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  Nov 1, 2017

  Every Pastor Needs to Address Domestic Violence

  Thirty-six years ago, as a newly minted minister, I encountered domestic violence through a gut-wrenching experience. A woman in the church, where I served as a youth pastor, came to my office in desperation.

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  Oct 7, 2017

  Something We Can All Do About the Terrible Tragedy of Suicide

  The increased awareness and public conversation about suicide is a welcome and much-needed development. What many people miss in the discussion, though, is the fact that half of the lives that end this way each year involve a firearm.

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  Aug 24, 2017

  The Silence of the Shepherds

  In the aftermath of racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, too many evangelical leaders have been quiet about what President Trump said or didn't say. Why is this?