Pastor's Corner: Thoughts and prayers

Jesus says, “I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life.”

As I write this, I am still struggling to work through my own grief and anger after three more mass shootings this week in Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio. I have attended that very same festival in Gilroy and I was born in Dayton. It hits close to home, literally.

Even as a pastor, it is my gut instinct to respond to a week like this by turning off the news, changing the station on the radio, throwing aside the newspaper, and staying off social media. I want to disengage; I want to remain ignorant. It is easier to shut...