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RELIGION
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Friday, March 2, 2018
Religion in school won’t solve gun violence
Dear Thoughtful Pastor:
I have a question about the
response to the mass shootings
specifically and to the role of
religion in our society in gener-
al. I have several family mem-
bers and friends who seem to
feel “putting God back in our
schools” will solve the gun
violence problem.
What is a reasonable way to
respond to this? This seems
simplistic at best, since it ig-
nores the assaults on the
churches in Charleston and
South Texas. And how does
one “put God back” when we
are a nation of various faiths
(or non-beliefs)?
Our schools do not compare
with those of other countries in
terms of math, science or histo-
ry as it is. I feel we should focus
on making them better and
safer and leave the rest to the
families and churches.
The Thoughtful Pastor:
With many others, I’m horri-
fied by what happened in Flori-
da and terrified by what might
happen tomorrow when yet
another disturbed and angry
(likely young white) male,
no other purpose than killing
other human beings as effi-
ciently as possible.
And what would it look like
to put God back in our
schools? I’m old enough to
remember filing into the lunch
room at my elementary school,
having a teacher ring the trian-
gle chime and either leading us
in a sung grace or being silent
when someone would offer a
prayer.
In my lily-white, upper-
middle-class part of Dallas,
there was one Jewish student,
no Muslim students, a few
Roman Catholics and the rest
stolidly main-line Protestants
attending our Baptist, Method-
ist, Disciples, Presbyterian,
Episcopalian and community
churches each Sunday. Every-
one had a religious affiliation of
some sort.
We spoke the same religious
language (except, of course, for
our Jewish classmate, whom
we routinely excluded). We also
tormented, bullied, insulted,
got into fights with and system-
atically made one another
miserable in the myriad ways
only pre-teens and teens can
good option. I have yet, in all
my reading of history, to see a
positive outcome when one
nation or one group of people
conquers another in the name
of “God” or some stated reli-
gious purpose.
Let’s look at the purpose of
the public school system. Why
do the most advanced nations
generously support universal
education for its citizens? Be-
cause an educated populace is
necessary for healthy self-
governance to thrive.
Democratic governance, as
opposed to rigid autocracy,
demands an informed pop-
ulation making reasoned deci-
sions about laws and policies.
For this, we need universal
literacy and an ability to think
critically.
Furthermore, countries that
will continue to prosper eco-
nomically must have people
who can compete in the world
of artificial intelligence, robot-
ically staffed factories, interna-
tional finance, all with intricate
cultural distinctions. Without
talented instructors focused
firmly on their tasks, we cannot
achieve these goals.
Yes, we need God in school
and everywhere else. How,
without coercion? Parents
must step up and recognize
their primary responsibility to
make sure they and their chil-
dren have healthy spiritual
lives.
do.
What we didn’t have were
military-style, rapid-fire weap-
ons that have no other purpose
than killing other human be-
ings as efficiently as possible.
But back to my upbringing,
I wonder how many religiously
segregated public schools like
that there are left in the U.S.?
And that being the case, how
dare we mandate a shared
religious experience on them?
And, even with that reli-
gious commonality, I had no
sense of “God being present” in
school.
Prayer was just something
we did, kind of like saying the
Pledge of Allegiance. I also
vividly remember nuclear strike
drills, heading into the hall-
ways, getting on our knees in
front of the lockers, putting our
arms over our heads, feeling
very, very afraid.
Providing our kids with
honest, nurturing, religious
instruction is one of the best
things parents can do. Forcing
religion in the name of the
state has never, ever been a
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That’s their job. Then they
carry into the schools — and
everywhere else — the Holy
Presence well-integrated into
their lives.
And we need to eliminate
from private hands military-
style, rapid-fire weapons that
have no other purpose than
killing other human beings as
efficiently as possible. Having
God in our lives does not dis-
pense with the need for com-
mon-sense laws for public
protection.
Email questions to the Rev.
Christy Thomas to thoughtful
pastor@gmail.com, ‘hike” her
Facebookpage at Christy
Thomas or message her on
Twitter at @christythomas, or
by mail to: The Thoughtful
Pastor, 3555Duchess Drive,
Denton, TX 76205.
The Rev. Christy
Thomas
THE THOUGHTFUL PASTOR
Commentary
armed to the teeth, goes after
those who he thinks have tor-
mented or bested him in some
way. If I thought we could solve
this by “putting God back in
our schools,” I’d be on the front
lines of the demand.
Unfortunately, angry young
males have been taking out
their wrath on the unfairness of
life on unarmed innocents for a
long time — certainly from
before the beginning of record-
ed history. Remember Cain
and Abel?
What they didn’t have until
recently were military-style,
rapid-fire weapons that have
Billy Graham funeral to serve
as evangelist’s final crusade
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his funeral eventually would re-
ally be his last crusade.”
Graham, who died last week
at age 99, brought a message of
salvation to millions during vis-
its and live broadcasts to scores
of countries. While the invita-
tion-only crowd Friday on the
grounds of his Charlotte library
is limited to 2,000 or so, inter-
net livestreams are allowing
many more to watch at noon.
The service features songs
from gospel musicians who per-
formed at Graham’s events: Lin-
da McCrary-Fisher, Michael W.
Smith and the Gaither Vocal
Band. They are all friends who
sang for Graham at his home.
Graham knew — his own chil-
dren — would deliver personal
messages.
And evoking the “Canvas Ca-
thedral” revivals that helped
launch his ministry seven de-
cades ago, mourners would
gather under a tent to pay their
final respects. For his family, the
idea became capturing the feel-
ing of the crusades that made
Graham “America’s Pastor” and
the world’s best-known Protes-
tant preacher of his era.
“His fingerprints are on this
service for sure,” family spokes-
man Mark DeMoss said in a
phone interview. “The Graham
family has long considered that
By Tom Foreman Jr.
and Jonathan Drew
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - As
his public appearances dwin-
dled in recent years, the Rev. Bil-
ly Graham began choosing
songs, Scripture and speakers
for one last public opportunity
to spread the Gospel — his own
funeral.
Plans for Friday’s service took
shape in the years after his last
crusade in 2005 as he huddled
with confidants and loved ones
in his North Carolina mountain
home. Musicians who had
shared Graham’s stage would
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for portraits in her house in Rome on Wednesday. The March edition of the monthly magazine
denounces how nuns are treated like virtual slaves by cardinals and bishops.
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most violent place on Earth for
women. He also has frequently
called for dignified work — and
dignified pay — for all. And in a
recent prologue to a book on
women’s issues, Francis ac-
knowledged that he was con-
cerned that in many cases, wom-
en’s work in the church “some-
times is more servitude than
true service.”
The March edition of Wom-
en Church World drives that
home, with a lead article “The
(nearly) free work of sisters,” by
French journalist Marie-Lucile
Kubacki, the Rome correspon-
dent for the La Vie magazine of
the Le Monde group.
Kubacki noted that sisters of-
ten work for prelates or church
institutions without contracts.
courage to say these words” pub-
licly.
By Nicole Winfield
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican
magazine has denounced how
nuns are often treated like in-
dentured servants by cardinals
and bishops, for whom they
cook and clean for next to no
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“Inside the church, women
are exploited,” she said in a re-
cent interview.
While Pope Francis has told
Scaraffia he appreciates and
reads the magazine, it is by no
means beloved within the deep-
ly patriarchal Vatican system.
Recent issues have raised eye-
brows, including the March
2016 edition on “Women who
preach,” which appeared to ad-
vocate allowing lay women to
deliver homilies at Mass.
One of the authors had to
publish a subsequent clarifica-
tion saying he didn’t mean to
suggest a change to existing doc-
trine or practice.
Other recent issues have ex-
plored the symbolic power of
women’s bodies and “rape as tor-
ture.”
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The March edition of Wom-
en Church World, the monthly
women’s magazine of the Vati-
can newspaper LVsservatore
Romano, hit newsstands
Thursday. Its expose on the un-
derpaid labor and unappreciat-
ed intellect of religious sisters
confirmed that the magazine is
increasingly becoming the im-
print of the Catholic Church’s
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“Some of them serve in the
homes of bishops or cardinals,
others work in the kitchens of
church institutions or teach.
Some of them, serving the men
of the church, get up in the
morning to make breakfast, and
go to sleep after dinner is served,
the house cleaned and the laun-
dry washed and ironed,” reads
one of the lead articles.
A nun identified only as Sis-
ter Marie describes how sisters
serve clergy but “are rarely invit-
ed to sit at the tables they serve.”
While such servitude is com-
mon knowledge, it is remark-
able that an official Vatican pub-
lication would dare put such
words to paper and publicly de-
nounce how the church system-
atically exploits its own nuns.
But that pluck has begun to
define Women Church World,
which launched six years ago as
a monthly insert in L’Osserva-
tore Romano and is now a
stand-alone magazine distribut-
ed for free online and alongside
the printed newspaper in Ital-
ian, Spanish, French and Eng-
lish.
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DCE: Ron DuPree
When one falls sick, she is sim-
ply sent back to her congrega-
tion which sends another in her
place.
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.5:15 p.m.
Scaraffia, a Catholic feminist
and professor of history at
Rome’s La Sapienza university,
sees the magazine as a necessary
tool to push the envelope on is-
sues that matter to half the
members of the Catholic
Church. The fact that a women’s
supplement to LVsservatore
Romano is even necessary is in-
dicative of what she’s up against.
LVsservatore is the official
newspaper of the Vatican, pub-
lishing official papal decrees and
speeches and maintaining an
editorial line that reflects the
priorities of the Holy See.
The March issue of its wom-
en’s magazine is dedicated to
‘Women and Work,” and ex-
plores many issues that are in
some ways correlated to the
#MeToo movement, including
the gender pay gap, the lack of
women in leadership positions,
and the “Ni Una Menos” move-
ment to combat feminicide and
violence against women, often
by spurned lovers.
During his recent trip to Pe-
ru, Francis denounced femini-
cide and gender-based crimes
that have turned his home conti-
nent, Latin America, into the
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Other sisters, meanwhile,
show remarkable intellectual
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gifts and earn advanced degrees,
but aren’t allowed to put them to
use because the collective nature
of religious communities often
discourages personal advance-
ment, another nun, Sister Paule,
told the magazine.
“Behind all this is the unfor-
tunate idea that women are
worth less than men, and above
all that priests are everything in
the church while sisters are
nothing,” Sister Paul said.
Sister Marie noted that many
nuns from Africa, Asia or Latin
America who come to study in
Rome hail from poor families,
whose extended care is often
paid for by their congregations.
As a result, they feel they can’t
complain about their work con-
ditions, she said.
“This all creates in them a
strong interior rebellion,” Sister
Marie reported. “These sisters
feel indebted, tied down, and so
they keep quiet.”
Scaraffia said she wanted to
give these sisters a voice, even
though she counts herself
among the church’s exploited.
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