I went to the church I grew up in the past weekend. It was the first time in months, and it left me with a deep reminder of why I'd needed distance; the pastor referred to the Newtown shooting multiple times, but his analogies and references were subtly insidious. Some of his rhetoric had the undertone of Mike Huckabee ("We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"). Other allusions to the tragedy seemed to be couched in religious appeals, seemingly as an attempt to tug at heartstrings in a way that felt contrived.
Anyway. I felt really unsettled.
However, I found these two responses on the interwebs - and felt like this resonated with my desire to simply mourn for the lost, and grieve and pray for the suffering of the families and Newtown and the brokenness of our nation. No explanation - no manipulation. Just...
Loss of the Innocents
God can't be kept out
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