Living by the Sword

Blog­ger Mark Wut­ka looks at guns and mass shoot­ings in light of the gospels’ warn­ings about “liv­ing by the sword.”

What are oth­er things that we might hold in a fear­ful death grip that are spir­i­tu­al­ly killing us? Are there peo­ple, insti­tu­tions, ideas, phys­i­cal objects that we must have? Are there things that inter­rupt our love of God or of our neighbors?