Greetings and salutations. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything. This is Kevin DeYoung.

I want to read my latest world article, which has to do with the shooting in Nashville.

We hear of these shootings too often, and it's always a tremendous sadness wherever it happens,

and yet we have to be honest that some of them strike home more than others, and this is certainly

one of those for me and for many

Christians especially in the PCA Covenant Presbyterian Church where the shooting

happened at their school the Covenant School is a PCA congregation like I

serve a PCA congregation they have a Co school, like we have a covenant school.

There are a lot of connections even between our church and there,

just inevitably in the same denomination in the Southeast.

People know people there, have worshiped there, we're members there, have come from there.

We have students here in our church who are from that congregation.

And the PCA is still a relatively small place.

And this is one of those churches that almost everybody knows of

because it's a bigger church.

It has a beautiful building.

And Nashville is a place that lots of Presbyterians come in and out of at some point. And so it really hits home for Christians, in particular for a lot of us in the PCA,

who know people there or connected to people there.

It's a great, great grief.

Words hardly can, they can't, they can't even begin to describe what they're going through.

It wasn't my plan to write anything. I don't need to say something about everything that happens, but Al Moller and

Andrew Walker at World Opinions asked me yesterday, could I say something as a PCA pastor,

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