"In America, one out of three homes with children has a gun, and nearly 1.7 million children live in a home with a loaded, unlocked gun. Every year thousands of kids are killed and injured as a result.
The ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Campaign promotes a simple idea with the potential to help keep kids safe. It encourages parents to ASK if there is an unlocked gun in the homes where their children play.
Parents ask all sorts of questions before their children visit other homes. They ask about pets in the house, discuss allergies and Internet access, and ask questions about supervision. ASK encourages parents to add one more question to this conversation: “Is there an unlocked gun in your house?” It’s a simple question, but it has the power to save a child’s life.
Every parent cares about the safety of their children. ASK allows parents to play an active role in keeping kids safe. Any parent can make a difference by ASKing, and encouraging others to do the same.
For more than a decade, the ASK Campaign and its supporters have partnered with over 400 grassroots organizations to spread its message in neighborhoods nationwide. The ASK Campaign is a collaboration between the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the American Academy of Pediatrics who has promoted the ASK message to its 62,000 members across the country. The ASK Campaign has successfully inspired 19 million households to ask if there are guns where their children play."
- From http://askingsaveskids.org/about-ask
The ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Campaign promotes a simple idea with the potential to help keep kids safe. It encourages parents to ASK if there is an unlocked gun in the homes where their children play.
Parents ask all sorts of questions before their children visit other homes. They ask about pets in the house, discuss allergies and Internet access, and ask questions about supervision. ASK encourages parents to add one more question to this conversation: “Is there an unlocked gun in your house?” It’s a simple question, but it has the power to save a child’s life.
Every parent cares about the safety of their children. ASK allows parents to play an active role in keeping kids safe. Any parent can make a difference by ASKing, and encouraging others to do the same.
For more than a decade, the ASK Campaign and its supporters have partnered with over 400 grassroots organizations to spread its message in neighborhoods nationwide. The ASK Campaign is a collaboration between the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the American Academy of Pediatrics who has promoted the ASK message to its 62,000 members across the country. The ASK Campaign has successfully inspired 19 million households to ask if there are guns where their children play."
- From http://askingsaveskids.org/about-ask
Remembering Newtown One Year Later
A number of resources and events relative to the one year anniversary of the shootings in Newtown have been posted on our diocesan website. Please visit:
https://www.ctepiscopal.org/News/newsView.asp?NewsId=40968177&NewsCategoryID=1
A number of resources and events relative to the one year anniversary of the shootings in Newtown have been posted on our diocesan website. Please visit:
https://www.ctepiscopal.org/News/newsView.asp?NewsId=40968177&NewsCategoryID=1
Sixteen Days of Activism against gender-based violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute coordinated by the Center for Women's Global Leadership (of Rutgers University) in 1991. The Women's Desk of the Anglican Communion has published a new valuable resource, Anglicans and the 16 Days, for use at the personal, parish or diocesan level to engage individuals and encourage action to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls. It includes information about the 16 Days Campaign, the White Ribbon Campaign which promotes positive masculinity, the Tearfund and several other important programs that work to reduce violence against women. The Anglican Communion News Service article announcing the release can be read online. Anglicans and the 16 Days resource is available as a PDF for your use here.
Visit the website at 16 Days of Activism to find out more and to download additional resources.
PAST EEVENTS
Events in Connecticut and beyond
Interfaith Council of Western Mass -
Weekend with James Attwood, author of America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose
Saturday, November 16-Sunday, November 17
The Interfaith Council of Western Mass will hosting a series of events on November 16th & 17th featuring the Rev. Dr. James E. Atwood, author of America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé published in 2012. Before his retirement Rev. Atwood served several Presbyterian churches in North Carolina and Virginia in addition to serving as a missionary with the United Church of Christ in Japan.
After a member of his church was shot and killed by a teenager looking for money he volunteered his services to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. He has served on their board for 38 years and served two terms as Chair. He was Interfaith Chair of The Million Mom March in 2000. In 2010 he was a member of the writing team of a comprehensive study on Gun Violence, Gospel Values: Mobilizing in Response to God‘s Call. Although he is an avid deer hunter he is an advocate for sensible gun control.
Saturday November 16th at 9:30am
A program will be held for clergy at St. John’s Congregational Church, 643 Union Street, Springfield. Rev. Atwood will give a keynote address, “America’s Trust in Violence”. He will frame the issue theologically, ethically and culturally so that the faith community can better understand this huge social issue and he will set the stage for the entire weekend helping everyone, but particularly people of faith to understand how and why America got where it is today with 132 separate school shootings since Columbine.
Saturday November 16th at 1pm
The Springfield Library will sponsor panel discussion addressing whether we can have a peace-full city, with less gun violence and greater public safety. It will be held at the Mason Square Branch Library’s Community Room, 765 State Street. Panel members include: Rev. Atwood, Springfield Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet, Stand for Children’s Luz Lopez, and representatives from the health, youth, and academic world. The panel will be moderated by Jim Madigan.
Sunday November 17th - Morning
Rev. Atwood will preach at the Churches on Island Pond Road, 455 Island Pond Road. East Church Congregational (UCC) service is at 9 am, and Bethesda Lutheran Church (ELCA) is at 11am. The services are open to all.
Sunday November 17th at 3 p.m.
A Community Art Exhibit at South Congregational Church 45 Maple Street, Springfield. Children throughout the city are having conversations about how we can be a more peaceful community and they are illustrating their thoughts on peace flags. The flag exhibit opens at 3pm in the parish hall. Refreshments will be served.
Sunday at 4 p.m.
At 4pm, there will be an Interfaith Thanksgiving Service “Creating a Peace-full City: A Thanksgiving Celebration”. Rev. Atwood will speak, "How do I/We Create a Peaceful City; what are the barriers, what are the facilitators". The St. John’s Congregational Church Choir will sing. The events are sponsored by the Interfaith Council of Western Mass. The Mass Council of Churches and the Council of Churches of Western Mass are co-sponsors. For additional information contact Rabbi Mark Dov Shapiro, Sinai Temple, 1100 Dickinson Street, Springfield, MA 01108 413-736-3619, [email protected].
Adult Education Forum on Violence and Culture, Sundays from 6:30 to 8pm beginning September 22
More info:
http://stjamesfarmington.ctdiocese.org/Outreach_and_Parish_Life/Adult_Education/
More info:
http://stjamesfarmington.ctdiocese.org/Outreach_and_Parish_Life/Adult_Education/
Faith & Media Conference http://www.odysseynetworks.org/news/2013/odyssey-networks-2013-annual-gathering
Bishop Ian T. Douglas is a featured panelist Tuesday morning, Oct. 1, at a two-day national "Faith and Media" conference, organized by Odyssey Networks. The panel will be held from 9-11 a.m. at the Interchurch Center on Riverside Drive in NYC. Lisa Miller of New York Magazine will moderate a panel addressing how the media, both religious and secular, can play a role in the ongoing debate about guns and violence. Panelists include religion journalists Kevin Eckstrom of Religion News Service and Jaweed Kaleem of Huffington Post, along with Bishop Douglas. Before turning to questions from the audience, Odyssey will show a two-minute trailer from a documentary on the Newtown shootings that they are producing. You can follow the conference on Twitter at #faithandmedia.
Odyssey is a multi-faith coalition that produces multi-media content to tell stories of faith in action.
National Summit on Non-Violence
August 22 Summit on Non-Violence in Washington, DC
http://blackwomenforpositivechange.org/NationalSummitFactSheetJuly32013-e.pdf
Talking Points on Non-Violence from August 22 Summit
Bishop Ian T. Douglas is a featured panelist Tuesday morning, Oct. 1, at a two-day national "Faith and Media" conference, organized by Odyssey Networks. The panel will be held from 9-11 a.m. at the Interchurch Center on Riverside Drive in NYC. Lisa Miller of New York Magazine will moderate a panel addressing how the media, both religious and secular, can play a role in the ongoing debate about guns and violence. Panelists include religion journalists Kevin Eckstrom of Religion News Service and Jaweed Kaleem of Huffington Post, along with Bishop Douglas. Before turning to questions from the audience, Odyssey will show a two-minute trailer from a documentary on the Newtown shootings that they are producing. You can follow the conference on Twitter at #faithandmedia.
Odyssey is a multi-faith coalition that produces multi-media content to tell stories of faith in action.
National Summit on Non-Violence
August 22 Summit on Non-Violence in Washington, DC
http://blackwomenforpositivechange.org/NationalSummitFactSheetJuly32013-e.pdf
Talking Points on Non-Violence from August 22 Summit
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Day of Non-Violence in Hartford, CT
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Remembering MLK Jr. & the March on Washington
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Remembering Newtown
Join with Newtown Action to remember the 9 month anniversary of Sandy Hook
http://newtownaction.org/take-action/
Join with Newtown Action to remember the 9 month anniversary of Sandy Hook
http://newtownaction.org/take-action/