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Reckoning with violence and silence

Every Advent, I wonder: What is it like to truly live in peace? — Dartinia Hull

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On Friday night, the Outlook’s social media producer texted several of us to ask if we’d heard about a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the UNLV campus. 

Out of the four people on the thread, only one had heard. 

"And there was a shooting spree in Texas," I texted back. "Six dead."

"There have been 630+ mass shootings in the U.S. this year," our producer texted. 

Our text thread fell quiet.

There could be a number...

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