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Pastor On Arkansas Legalizing Guns In Church: ‘Loving Our Neighbor Just Got A Little Harder’
I guess the plus side is that with armed pastors some people are definitely not going to skimp on the collection pot?
Protesting this new law, Rev. Scott Walters, pastor of Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Little Rock, wrote to his local paper:
The legislature’s action has already impacted our ministry at Christ Church. It’s given us one more hurdle, one more fear to deal with as we try to do our Christian duty and welcome a stranger into our midst as if he or she were Christ himself. Its impact is not hypothetical. It is real. Loving our neighbor just got a little harder.
Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/pastor-responds-to-arkansas-legalizing-guns-in-church-loving-our-neighbor-just-got-a-little-harder/
