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On December 14, a gunman went into Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut shot and killed 26 people; 20 children and 6 adults. We here at R3 thought it would be important to collect\u00a0reflections\u00a0 reactions and responses to this horrific\u00a0tragedy. If you have one or if you know of others, please share them with our editor at ajohnson@memphisseminary.edu<\/span>

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<\/span>1. Connecticut School Shooting: Hip-Hop Reacts to Terrible Tragedy<\/a><\/span>
2.\u00a0Fischer: God Didn\u2019t Stop CT School Shooting Because He\u2019s a Gentleman Who Doesn\u2019t Go Where He Is \u00a0 \u00a0Not Wanted<\/a><\/span>
3. Obama Pledges \u2018Meaningful Action\u2019 After Connecticut Shooting<\/a><\/span>
4.\u00a0The Shooting Of Children And \u2018God\u2019s Plan\u2019<\/a><\/span>
5. Mike Huckabee says removing God from schools is to blame for shooting<\/a><\/span>
6. Connecticut School Shooting: Love is a Weapon Against Darkness<\/a><\/span>
7. White House On Newtown School Shooting: Today Not The Day For Gun Control Debate<\/a><\/span>
8. Westboro Church tweets about Connecticut shootings: \u2018Fag marriage\u2019 is to blame<\/a><\/span>
9. LET\u2019S TALK ABOUT GUNS<\/a><\/span>
10. Guns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us<\/a><\/span>
11. Are We Living In Hell? The Sandy Hook School Massacre and the Presence of God<\/a><\/span>
12.Connecticut shooting, white males, and mass murder\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
13. Newtownian Understanding (Part 1)<\/a><\/span>
14. Sandy Hook Shooting: Is It About Banning Guns Or Banning God?<\/a><\/span>
15. Political Cartoons Of Newtown Elementary School Shooting<\/a><\/span>
16. After Newtown, A Call For Spiritual Activism Around Gun Violence: Fasting for Peace<\/a><\/span>
17. Gaudete Sunday: How Can You Feel Joy After Newtown Shooting?<\/a><\/span>
18. Joe Scarborough: Newtown Shooting Made \u2018Ideologies Of My Past\u2019 On Guns Irrelevant (VIDEO)<\/a><\/span>
19. The Newtown Tragedy and the Prophetic Case for Immediate Action<\/a><\/span>
20. Theses on Guns, Apocalypticism, and American Religion<\/a><\/span>
21. God can\u2019t be kept out<\/a><\/span>
22. Sandy Hook Elementary: Gun Control, Mental Health and the State of Our Union<\/a><\/span>
23. Letter of the Day (July 11): Darkness<\/a><\/span>
24. James Dobson Says Sandy Hook is God\u2019s Judgment on America<\/a><\/span>
25. Where is God?\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
26. Tea Party Nation Blames Sandy Hook Shooting On Sex In Media, Teacher\u2019s Unions And Bureaucracy<\/a><\/span>
27. Huckabee Clarifies Remarks About Newtown Shooting and God in Schools<\/a><\/span>
28. WHY DOES GOD ALLOW PAIN AND SUFFERING?<\/a><\/span>
29. Where was God in the Connecticut School Shooting?<\/a><\/span>
30. For Newtown, Condolences and a Plea for Action<\/a><\/span>
31. God on Trial in Newtown<\/a><\/span>
32. The God Who Shows Up When God Disappears<\/a><\/span>
33. School Shooting Debates: God, Guns, Video Games and Mental Illness<\/a><\/span>
34. School shooting at Advent prompts clergy to reflect on U.S. violence<\/a><\/span>
35. NRA On School Shooting: Politicians React After Press Conference<\/a><\/span>
36. Blaming Sandy Point school shooting on lack of God is a coward\u2019s cop-out<\/a><\/span>
37. Religious Right Reacts to Sandy Hook Shooting by Blaming Lack of Government-Dictated School Prayer<\/a><\/span>
38. CONNECTICUT SCHOOL SHOOTING<\/a><\/span>
39. God Is Appalled By Sandy Hook Shooting Say Mormon Scholars Terryl and Fiona Givens<\/a><\/span>
40. A conversation with God on Sandy Hook shooting<\/a><\/span>
41. Newt Gingrich Blames \u2018Anti Religious\u2019 Secular Government For Newtown Shooting<\/a><\/span>
42. An Obituary for Right-Wing Evangelicalism?<\/a><\/span>
43. On the Disciplining of Grief: The Affective Aftermath of Newtown\u00a0<\/a><\/span>
44. Sandy Hook and Public Theology<\/a><\/span>
45. President Obama Speaks at Newtown High School<\/a><\/span>
46. Newtown shooting prompts Obama to talk about God<\/a><\/span>
47. God\u2019s Obituary: A Humanist Response to Mass Murder<\/a><\/span>
48. Celebrities Call for Gun Control Plan<\/a><\/span>
49. Newtown School Shooting: Is God to blame? Jesse Morrell<\/a><\/span>
50. The Newtown Connecticut School Shooting Resources for Reflection, Worship, and Helping Children Understand<\/a><\/span>
51. No God, No Parenting, No Common Sense, No Wonder in Connecticut School Shooting<\/a><\/span>
52. Connecticut School Shooting \u2013 What Does The Bible Say? Where was God?<\/a><\/span>
53.The Way It\u2019s Supposed to Be: Reflections on Sandy Hook<\/a><\/span>
54. The Weapons of Our Warfare<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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