State Deadline Passes and Most New Bills Introduced
Raleigh Report — May 18 Update
[…] the Raleigh area and interested in helping with phone banking, please e-mail raleighreport@nccouncilofchurches.org with your contact information. Gun Violence Eat in Peace is a campaign being organized by North Carolinians Against Gun Violence to […]
After Sandy Hook — Sign-On Statement
We join in the shared grief of our nation and especially offer words of comfort to all of those who have had loved ones torn from them.
Raleigh Report — April 17, 2017
[…] Szoka (R-Fayetteville), and Watford (R-Thomasville). Referred to House Energy and, if favorable, to Homeland Security. GUN VIOLENCE S 503, Paperless Pistol Permit, would repeal North Carolina’s current system of requiring handgun purchasers […]
Raleigh Report – April 29, 2019
[…] Lewis (R-Dunn), Warren, and Dahle (D-Raleigh) and referred to House Elections, then to Rules. GUNS/ GUN VIOLENCE HB 842 – Register Assault Weapon and Report Lost Firearm would require anyone owning an […]
2021 Legislative Seminar Resources
[…] Policy Current State of Public Education Working for a Living Wage Information & Resources Eco-Justice Gun Violence Prevention Immigration Drug Policy Voting Rights Tax & Finance Healthcare Public Education Raising Wages Important […]
Take Action
[…] Immigration Tell Your Representative in the House: Co-Sponsor the New Immigration Bill By America’s Voice Topic: Gun Violence Ask NC Restaurants to Remain Gun Free By Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in […]
Statements
The Council takes positions on issues through policy statements which inform, guide and frame our work. Policy statements are adopted by our governing body, often upon recommendation of one or […]
Beyond Pulse: Vigilance, Tolerance
[…] far unwilling to speak the truth about this country’s failure to adequately regulate access to guns. Surely a case could be made that Mateen, having been on the FBI’s radar […]
Job Opening: NC No Torture Project Coordinator
[…] are particularly concerned about issues related to health care, immigration, care of creation, public education, gun violence, voting rights, food security, and peace. The Council embraces ethnic, racial, gender, and […]
2019 Legislative Seminar
[…] their efforts be pushed along? Curbing Gun Violence: Becky Ceartas, Executive Director, North Carolinians Against Gun Violence What can and should North Carolina do? The legislative role. Higher Education Under Stress: David […]
Raleigh Report — April 26, 2017
[…] to get 60% of their energy from renewable sources. Introduced by Rep. R. Moore (D-Charlotte). GUN VIOLENCE H 817, Repeal Pistol Permit Requirements, would, as the title suggests, do away with North […]
Resources from the 2023 Legislative Seminar
[…] Dollars, Our Future Presentation Slides Governor’s budget: https://ncbudget.org/nc-governors-plan-a-budget-proposal-that-offers-restrained-hope/ House budget: https://ncbudget.org/house-budget-plan-is-a-dangerous-starting-point-for-the-north-carolina-budget-debate/ Senate budget: https://ncbudget.org/nc-senate-budget-plan-deepens-tax-cuts-in-a-rushed-untransparent-process/ Preventing Gun Violence in North Carolina – Sara Smith, North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Resources and information can […]
Preparing the Way: The Price of Faithfulness
[…] turn on the TV without hearing people calling for new restrictions on the availability of guns of mass destruction. These people included those who had been ardent gun advocates and […]
Disturbing the Peace
Rev. Cody Sanders, Ph.D. candidate in Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Counseling at Brite Divinity School There is something in these furious, feverish words that beckons beyond a simple description of […]
Voices of Moral Mondays: Let the Little Children Come to Me by Susan Steinberg
By Rev. Susan Steinberg, United Church of Chapel Hill “Let the little children come to me, do not hinder them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom […]
Raleigh Report — March 13, 2017
[…] Boswell (R-Kill Devil Hills), J. Bell (R-Goldsboro), and Bradford (R-Cornelius). Referred to House Environment Comm. GUN VIOLENCE S 204, Allow Concealed Carry on UNC and Community College Campuses, is identical to H […]
Raleigh Report — March 21, 2017
[…] RR, February 27. Introduced by Sens. Britt (R-Lumberton) and Sanderson (R-Arapahoe). Referred to Senate Rules. GUN VIOLENCE H 345, Omnibus Firearms Bill, has, as the title suggests, several parts. Among them: Specify […]
Raleigh Report — April 10, 2017
[…] can be included. Introduced by Sens. Brock (R-Mocksville) and Wade (R-Greensboro). Referred to Senate Rules. GUN VIOLENCE H 438, Concealed Handgun Standardization Act, changes the grounds on which a concealed handgun permit […]
It’s Only 40 Days
[…] school shootings THIS year, each with its own details. Same story though; same semi-automatic style gun used in Las Vegas, Aurora, Colorado, San Bernardino, California, the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, […]
Raleigh Report – April 11, 2019
[…] and Hise (R-Spruce Pine). Referred to Senate Redistricting and Elections and then to Rules. GUNS/ GUN VIOLENCE SB 485 – Destruction of Certain Firearms/Local Option would permit a city or county to […]
Index by Scripture
[…] 25, Year C) AMOS Amos 5:6-7, 10-15; Domestic Violence (Proper 23, Year B) HABAKKUK Habakkuk1:1-4;2:1-4; Gun Violence (Proper 26, Year C) MATTHEW Matthew 9:35-10:8; Health Care Access (Proper 6, Year B) Matthew […]
Sacred Series Toolkit: Becoming a Trauma-Informed Faith Community
[…] help overall health: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Consider local community trauma: such as gun violence, collective loss, trauma around natural disasters and storms Do a church-wide study of […]
Building a Bridge: Community & Law Enforcement
[…] For more information on part two, click here.) Co-sponsors: Raleigh-Apex NAACP, MomsRising, North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, Public Schools First NC, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Action […]
2021 Legislative Seminar
[…] Landscape of Gun Laws led by Sara Smith, Statewide Community Organizer of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence Tuesday, April 27, 1 p.m.: Current Immigration Legislation led by David Fraccaro, Executive Director of […]
‘Independent’ legislature: Fair elections at risk
[…] guarantees a right (arguably a qualified right) to bear firearms? Well, then, states cannot require gun owners to show why they have a particular need to carry their weapons in […]
Tribute to the Life of the Reverend Dr. T. Anthony Spearman
[…] terrorist attack in Charleston, S.C., an event that portended much of the racial violence and gun violence that has swept our country in recent months. As a new Executive Director in those […]
A Statement on Christians, Churches and Politics
Fifteen years ago the N. C. Council of Churches' House of Delegates adopted a statement on the subject of Christians, churches, and politics. This statement is an update of that […]
Triangle Congregations Break Silence on War
< em>Raleigh News & Observerem> On Christ the King Sunday, when many Roman Catholic and Protestant churches celebrate their allegiance to God rather than country, some Triangle congregations talked about […]
Program and Registration for 2013 Legislative Seminar
[…] at the Legislature 2:25 Workshops – Session 3 Implementing the Affordable Care Act Farmworker Issues Gun Violence Voting Rights (repeated) Legislative Process and Advocacy 3:30 Closing Session Worship led by Rev. Ben […]
Trump’s Anti-Muslim Bluster
[…] that they’d come here to make mayhem. In any case, tighter laws regarding access to guns and ammunition are surely in order. The spirit of religious pluralism has been central […]
We Welcome Your End-of-Year Gift
[…] that voice in our work on behalf of immigrants and refugees and an end to gun violence, for care of creation and care of personal health, for fair policies, budgets, […]
Advent Guide: Second Sunday, December 4
[…] Fender benders lead to screaming matches, punches are thrown at little league games, miscommunication begets gun violence. We don’t trust each other, we don’t completely trust ourselves, and our burgeoning […]
Walls Demonstrate Hostility, not Hospitality
[…] Palestine, China and Mongolia, Texas and Mexico. And then we must guard our gates with guns and round-the-clock surveillance. This approach could have been seen as necessary in Old Testament […]
Raleigh Report — February 28, 2017
[…] McElraft (R-Emerald Isle). Referred to House Energy and Public Utilities and, if favorable, to Finance. GUN VIOLENCE H 174, Concealed Carry/Church School Property. Under current law, you can’t carry a weapon, whether […]
2017 Legislative Seminar: Advocate in NC as well as DC
[…] the Faith Active in Public Life Award to Lisa Price, founder of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, and to U.S. Representative David Price. Congressman Price will then offer our keynote […]
What Gives Me Hope
[…] shoot down the issues we are confronting, and since we work on peace advocacy and gun violence prevention at the Council of Churches, we wouldn’t shoot it if we had it! And […]
Support the Council on Giving Tuesday
[…] Representatives and Lisa for her work as the founder and director emerita of NC Against Gun Violence. As pressure mounted against immigrants, we hosted Sanctuary Training events to empower local […]
Support the Work of the Council
[…] issue. The issues most pressing this month as I write to you are: Public Education Gun Violence Prevention Immigration and the Sanctuary Coalition NC Commission of Inquiry on Torture Medicaid Expansion Opioid […]
Council Calls for More Support for Public Education
[…] Fund Public Education. Previous billboards erected by the Council called attention to immigration reform and gun violence. With this latest message, the Council is once again taking the biblical imperative […]
Advent Guide: First Sunday, December 2
[…] up and raise our heads to demand that the “right to life” include some sensible gun laws? The income gap between the richest and the poorest in this country is […]
Request for Proposals: Art Mural
[…] 2000s). We continue to work on many of the issues listed above as well as gun violence prevention, environment, public education, raising wages campaign, immigration, opioid crisis awareness, and anti-torture. Specific details […]
2013 Legislative Seminar
[…] as a .zip file) Farmworker Issues: Carol Brooke, Director, Workers Rights Project, NC Justice Center (carol@ncjustice.org | 919-856-2144) Gun Violence: Marcia Owen, Executive Director, Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham (nonviolentdurham@gmail.com | 919-358-1113) Legislative Process and […]
Public Education Advocacy Resources
[…] in push to get money for teacher raises School Nurses Discuss Their Role in Preventing Gun Violence Former NC Teacher of the Year James Ford weighs in on education in Charlotte. Should […]
NC Council of Churches Legislative Seminar
[…] presented to U.S. Rep. David Price and to Lisa Price, founder of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence. David Price will provide the keynote on the impact federal actions are having […]
Farmworker Advocacy Network Coordinator
[…] particularly concerned about issues related to racial equity, universal health care, the environment, fair wages, gun violence prevention, and voting rights. The Council has been an engaged partner advocating for Farmworker justice […]
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[…] right now are environmental justice and health and welfare. We are also extensively advocating around gun violence prevention, public education, raising wages, overdose awareness, racial equity, HIV advocacy, mental health advocacy, death […]
2022 Advent Guide: Christmas Day
[…] members that this year’s after-dinner sing-along will include a melody that calls us to address gun violence, mass incarceration, food and housing scarcity, and other societal problems that cannot be […]
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After switch, they’re set to party hearty
[…] to pass background checks overseen by their county sheriff – a nonsensical move indeed while gun violence of all kinds seems to be surging. Yet the agenda that’s now in the legislative […]
North Carolina clergy demonstrate against legislature’s new abortion limits
[…] something to drink.” Lawmakers, Barber suggested, should instead focus on raising the minimum wage, stemming gun violence and narrowing economic inequality. Like Barber, Copeland challenged the prevailing view that Christians are opposed […]
Farmworker Advocacy Network Coordinator (Bilingual – Spanish/English)
[…] particularly concerned about issues related to racial equity, universal health care, the environment, fair wages, gun violence prevention, and voting rights. The Council has been an engaged partner advocating for Farmworker justice […]
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2024 Lenten Guide: Ash Wednesday
[…] rising death toll in Gaza, the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Sudan, and the daily gun violence that plagues our country, death dominates the headlines. We could say it’s similar to the […]
Antidote to Death
[…] is not the real problem. There are some physical deaths that are problematic: starving children, gun violence, maternal mortality, to name a few. I don’t mean to say dying doesn’t […]