Crime

“Human trafficking is the uncomfortable conversation we rarely have in church settings yet its reality casts an imposing shadow in our minds, especially for those of us who have daughters.” - Baptist Press

“All of us can agree that we want wrongs to be righted and evil to be avenged.” - Russell Moore

“Sheafe stated that his specific reason for doing so was that ‘Christian pastors are leading people into a false path by following Jesus.’” - C.Leaders

“Vance Boelter claimed to be educated at Christ for the Nations, a Bible school in Dallas, and preached in Congo in recent years.” - RNS

“Truscott followed up on [his study] findings by examining similar data from the Public Religion Research Institute and reported the results in a paper in the Journal of Sociology and Christianity in October.

“In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590.” - Pew

“Annual government surveys from the Bureau of Justice Statistics show no recent increase in the U.S. violent crime rate” - Pew

“homicide rates in rural America spiked 25 percent according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s not far behind the 30 percent increase urban areas saw.” - Relevant

“How Christians can respond to their own dread about the last years’ uptick in violence and property damage.” - CToday

“Children in poor families tend to have better outcomes than children raised in foster homes, as I noted in a piece for Psychology Today. This is striking because when it comes to important outcomes like graduation rates, drug use, future earnings, and criminal behavior, much of our focus is on economic factors.” - IFS