My wife and I, with friends and family, went to see “Jesus Revolution” last night. It is a new release about the hippie revival that swept California from 1968 – 1971. I highly recommend it. The movie focuses on three men God used: Lonnie Frisbee, Greg Laurie and Chuck Smith. I grew up in the same Kansas farm country we have now moved back to. I was just a boy when the hippie thing started. While a few in rural Kansas wore bell-bottom jeans, beads and sandals – it was never really a thing here. It was primarily existent only on TV stories coming out of California. Kansas was mostly blue jeans, boots and belts with pliers in leather pouches. And a lot of people discounting anything and everything California. I was so shaped by the ultra-conservative culture of our area, I knew little of the roots of Calvary Chapel…

We continue lessons learned from Mass Murder Events (4 or more killed in the same attack) at Faith Based Organizations (FBO). Last week’s writing provides the baseline. This week we will consider more noteworthy details. One is the increase of such attacks; another is in how deadly bias and domestic abuse attacks can be. There are two categories that tell of the increase. The first category is the quantity of attacks.; the 2nd is in number of victims killed. Prior to 1963, there had never been a mass murder attack at a faith based organization in the United States. 187 years of American liberty and it had never happened. In the 62-1/2 years since 1963 there have been 16. The Birmingham Alabama massacre where 4 little girls were killed by racist thugs who planted dynamite under the church, rocked the nation. It was one of the leading catalysts in America’s…

I have been thinking of mass murder events (4 or more killed in the same killing spree) with faith-based organizations and was interested in knowing how the statistical data would compare on those 16 events as it related to the motives (attack triggers) of those attacks. Here is the full list again. 9/15/1963. Birmingham, AL. 4 killed. 6/22/1980. Daingerfield, TX. 5 killed. 8/9& 10/1991. Waddell, AZ. 9 killed. 3/10/1999. Gonzales, LA.  4 killed. 9/15/1999. Ft. Worth, TX – 7 killed. 3/12/2005. Brookfield, WI – 7 killed. 8/28/2005. Sash, TX – 4 killed. 5/21/2006. Baton Rouge, LA – 5 killed. 10/2/2006. Lancaster County, PA – 5 killed. 12/9/2007. Arvada and Colorado Springs, CO – 4 killed. 4/2/2012. Oakland, CA – 7 killed. 8/5/2012. Oak Creek, WI. 7 killed. 6/17/2015. Charleston, SC – 9 killed. 11/5/2017. Sutherland Springs, TX – 26 killed. 10/27/2018. Pittsburgh, PA – 11 killed 2/28/2022. Sacramento, CA –…