Here s what guns, COVID have in common Effective measures needed to address the damage both can do are too often misunderstood.
By EDITORIAL BOARD Star Tribune December 20, 2020 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
At the time of this writing, COVID-19 is the leading cause of death in the United States. There is ample reason to hope that the vaccines now beginning to arrive will soon knock the coronavirus off that morbid perch.
Nothing will bring back the loved ones we ve lost to the pandemic, but at least we ll be worrying about our old familiar foes heart disease, for example, and cancer.
Guests
The Most Rev. Michael Curry is Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church. He is the author of
Dr. Russell Moore is President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He is the author of
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Krista Tippett, host: We’re in a tender spiritual moment as a country widely feeling our need for re-grounding and healing both alone and together. But calls for social repair and unity are also meeting an understandable wariness. The last years have been bruising all around. So of course I leapt at an invitation to be in a forward-looking conversation with two religious thinkers and spiritual leaders from very different places on our Christian and cultural spectrum: Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church of the U.S., together with Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission – essentia