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S2 Ep1091: What If the CHURCH Was the Solution to Gun Violence in Chicago?: Michael Allen

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How to Be a Healing Redemptive Presence on Both Sides of the Gun Violence

As a pastor I felt like the church has to be in this we have to minister on both sides of the gun. The government incentivized unplanned or un unwed pregnancies and delivery of children with without a man in the household so that then led to all other kinds of social issues was you know if a father's not in the home he sidestepped or marginalized or pushed out of the way out of the family uh for sake of receiving more welfare payments. He doesn't have the responsibility and need to care for those families so he can go do whatever and then go from house to house and have all these kids from different baby mamas  and not take responsibility of them. So

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