Some bloggers have written over the weekend on the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. These are those with which I am familiar. If you have found a post particularly helpful as concerns trying to process what happened please share it in the comments section.
Carmen Andes: Tentative thoughts on Sandy Hook
Tony Cruz: Pray for Them by Name
Peter Enns: On God, Shooting Children, and Having No Answers
Rachel Held Evans: Grieving Together
Craig Falvo: School Prayer and School Shootings are Not Related
Katie Grimes: On the Killing of Children
Alan Jacobs: Two Thoughts about Guns, Risks, and Safety
T.C. Moore: Darkness, Advent, and Newtown, CT
Ben Myers: Prayer for Newton, Connecticut, December 14th
Cynthia Nielsen: Our Rachels are Weeping, Our School Children and Teachers are Slain, and “They” Say It’s Not Time to Talk about Guns
Nick Norelli: Senseless
Mark Stevens: A sermon in the wake of such unmentionable evil
Matthew Paul Turner: 4 Questions Every Evangelical Church Should Be Asking (in light of the Newtown shooting)
Kurt Willems: The God who cries when children die
Joel Watts: Tell me again about how that old time religion prevented school shootings
Ben Witherington: President Obama’s Homily in Newtown- 2 Cor 4.7-18 ; The Slaughter of the Innocents, Again
OUP has a response here.
Among many today, I would also draw your attention to Jim Gordon at Living Wittily, and what not to say at Huffington Post
People really shouldn’t write when their emotions are in over-drive. Emotions distort the reality given the topic titles one can see reading their words is a waste of time. Joel Watts has no idea about life at all and blames something out of personal bias not truth.
when these people write the truth then let me know because emotional responses have little value or insight.