{"id":65171,"date":"2017-11-08T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65171"},"modified":"2017-11-08T05:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T10:29:19","slug":"baltimore-sun-maryland-churches-ponder-security-in-wake-of-texas-shooting-this-evil-can-happen-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65171","title":{"rendered":"(Baltimore Sun) Maryland churches ponder security in wake of Texas shooting: &#8216;This evil can happen anywhere&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway says it\u2019s the duty of any church to do all it can to ensure the safety of its congregants, so he has long had security cameras in place throughout Union Baptist Church in West Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>But after yet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/nation-world\/ct-texas-church-shooting-20171106-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another mass shooting left 26 people dead at a Texas church Sunday<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the worst such incident at a place of worship in American history \u2014 the church and community leader is feeling a special urgency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\"><\/div>\n<p>Hathaway was hard at work Monday on an email to other local religious leaders to urge action across denominational lines on matters of security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tragic to think that this anger, this violence, is now invading our sacred spaces, the places where we try to foster peace and reflection, especially in a country that espouses religious freedom,\u201d he says. \u201cBut this is clearly a fact of life now. We must think about security over and against our freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-church-shootings-aftermath-20171106-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway says it\u2019s the duty of any church to do all it can to ensure the safety of its congregants, so he has long had security cameras in place throughout Union Baptist Church in West Baltimore.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65171\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,183,184,177,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65173,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171\/revisions\/65173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}