In addition to United Methodist Women’s historic and ongoing work for racial justice, The United Methodist Church’s strong stance against gun violence can be read in Resolution 3428, “Our Call to End Gun Violence,” in The Book of Resolutions of The United Methodist Church 2016, in which congregations are encouraged to, among other actions, make preventing gun violence part of their conversations and prayers, to attend vigils, to prohibit guns from church property, to support universal background checks and arms treaties and bans on high capacity ammunition and automatic weapons, to assist people affected by gun violence and to join with other denominations and faiths that have experienced gun violence.
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This episode originally appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of response magazine.
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