gun violence in america march 14 through 17, 2013 reflect, unite, act

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americans whose deaths were caused by 33,000 gun-related violence in 2012

people killed by a firearm in the u.s. since the newtown, conn., tragedy on dec. 14, 2012 2,605 (as of press time)

289 people wounded each day by a firearm in america 87 people killed each day by a firearm in america

children or teenagers are either 2 killed or injured by a gun every hour 251,131,232 people of faith in the united states of america

Faith is part of the answer. The Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend brings together people of faith—clergy, public leaders, advocates, victims, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters—to explore how our faith inspires action toward common sense solutions to help end the gun violence epidemic in America. This is just the start of a long path of work and ministry. Washington National Cathedral will continue to serve as a leading voice on this issue, and we need your help. Please sign up to be a partner with us in addressing gun violence. It will take prayer and perseverance from a diverse coalition of the faithful to inspire our nation on this issue and many more. Learn how you can help at www.nationalcathedral.org. 2 sources the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Slate, and U.S. Census Bureau. gun violence in america march 14 through 17, 2013 reflect, unite, act

Thursday, March 14, 2013 2 7 pm - speaking from experience: seasoned leaders offer solutions Friday, March 15, 2013 2 8:45 am - private event: the close community discusses gun violence Panelists for Thursday and Friday 3 Saturday, March 16, 2013 GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION SABBATH St. John’s Chapel is open throughout the day for private prayer. 11 am - interfaith service: 4 by the waters of babylon we sat down and wept 11:30 am - urban gun violence 6 panel discussion 12:30 pm - interfaith call to action 6 and discussion on national policies on gun violence panel 2 pm - interfaith leaders 7 panel discussion 3 pm - interfaith service: 8 the eyes of the lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their cry

Brought to you with the generous support of the Panelists and Participants for Saturday 10 F.I.S.H. Foundation, Inc., and friends of Washington National Cathedral. www.fishfoundationinc.org Moderator Bios 12 Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath produced in Service Participants 13 partnership with Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence. faithsagainstgunviolence.org Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7 pm speaking from experience: seasoned leaders offer solutions

WELCOME Cathedral Dean Gary Hall

PROGRAM with panelists Patrick Burke Dr. Arthur Kellermann The Hon. R.T. Rybak

Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde, moderator

QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE Please submit your questions on the cards provided and pass to an usher.

Friday, March 15, 2013, 8:45 am the close community discusses gun violence this is a private event.

PROGRAM with panelists Dr. Arthur Kellermann Cathy L. Lanier The Hon. R.T. Rybak Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde, moderator

prayers for the nation offered throughout Friday at :45 each hour

2 ABOUT THE PANELISTS for Thursday and Friday patrick burke (Thursday only) is the District of Columbia’s assistant chief of police and is an 18- year veteran of the department. During his Metropolitan Police Department career, Burke has served in four of the seven police districts, the Special Operations Division, Operations Command, and the Field and Tactical Support Unit. Burke received his undergraduate degree in criminal justice from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, a certificate of public management from the George Washington University, and a master’s degree in management from Johns Hopkins University. He is also a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Academy in Quantico, Va., and the Senior Management Institute for Police in Boston, Mass. dr. arthur kellermann holds the Paul O’Neill Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis at the rand Corporation. Before joining rand, Kellermann was a professor and associate dean at the Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta; he founded Emory’s Department of Emergency Medicine and served as its first chair. Kellermann holds “excellence in science” awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association. As a clinician and researcher, he practiced and taught emergency medicine for more than 25 years in public teaching hospitals in Seattle, Wash.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Atlanta, Ga. cathy l. lanier (Friday only) is the chief of police of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (mpd). Lanier has spent her entire law enforcement career with the mpd, beginning in 1990, and assumed leadership of the mpd in 2007. Much of her career has been in uniformed patrol, where she served as commander of the Fourth District, one of the largest and most diverse residential patrol districts in the city. Lanier is a graduate of the fbi National Academy and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Drug Unit Commanders Academy. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in management from Johns Hopkins University, and a master’s degree in National Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. r.t. rybak was first elected mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2005 to serve another term. Rybak took office facing a post-9/11 budget crisis and deep state and federal budget cuts. He responded by implementing innovative fiscal reforms that saved taxpayers millions by reducing $80 million of inherited debt, reigning in government spending, and producing six balanced budgets in four years. Rybak is now leading efforts to revitalize north Minneapolis, attack juvenile crime, make Minneapolis a wireless city, end homelessness in ten years, and significantly reduce the city’s energy consumption to combat global climate change. The bio for bishop mariann edgar budde appears on page 12.

3 GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION SABBATH in partnership with Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence Saturday, March 16, 2013, 11 am St. John’s Chapel open throughout the day for private prayer by the waters of babylon we sat down and wept

As the bell sounds, the People stand. opening prayer leader In the midst of life we are in death; people from whom can we seek help? leader Our help is in the name of the Lord people who made heaven and earth. cantor Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us. people Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us. Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.

Lord, you know the secrets of our hearts; shut not your ears to our prayers, but spare us, O Lord. people Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us. Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.

O worthy and eternal God, do not let the pains of death turn us away from you at our last hour. people Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us. Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.

The People sit. prayer Grieving our Lost Children Dr. Walter Brueggemann from Prayers for a Privileged People psalm 137 Plainsong

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Zion. As for our harps, we hung them up on the trees in the midst of that land. For those who led us away captive asked us for a song, and our oppressors called for mirth: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.” How shall we sing the Lord’s song upon an alien soil? If I forget you, O

4 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy. Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord, against the people of Edom, who said, “Down with it! down with it! even to the ground!” O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy the one who pays you back for what you have done to us! Happy shall he be who takes your little ones, and dashes them against the rock! reflection Considering Lament The Rev. Gina Gilland Campbell musical reflection Prayer from Jewish Life Ernest Block (1880–1959) Gita Ladd, cello prayers for grieving The People stand. The cantor sings the response once. The People sing the response twice.

A Prayer from the Reformed Church in France people Amen. a brief silence is kept

A Prayer from the New Zealand Prayer Book people Amen. a brief silence is kept

A Prayer from the New Zealand Prayer Book people Amen. a brief silence is kept

The cantor sings the response once. The People sing the response twice.

blessing the work A Vision of Hope Wanda Lawrence, Chippewa (twentieth century) people Amen.

The People sit. musical benediction Pie Jesu from Requiem Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986) Pie Jesu, Domine, dona eis requiem; dona eis sempiternam requiem. Blessed Jesus, Lord, give them rest; grant them thine eternal rest.

The People stand as the worship leaders leave the platform. 5 GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION SABBATH in partnership with Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence Saturday, March 16, 2013, 11:30 am urban gun violence panel discussion

PROGRAM with panelists The Rev. Dr. Delman L. Coates The Rev. Alvin Herring The Rev. Carol Reese

Cathedral Dean Gary Hall, moderator

Saturday, March 16, 2013, 12:30 pm national policies on gun violence

INTERFAITH CALL TO ACTION Cathedral Dean Gary Hall James Winkler, chair, Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence joined by interfaith and elected leaders

PANEL DISCUSSION PROGRAM with panelists Colin Goddard The Hon. Chris Van Hollen

Cathedral Dean Gary Hall, moderator

6 GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION SABBATH in partnership with Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence Saturday, March 16, 2013, 2 pm interfaith leaders panel discussion

PROGRAM with panelists The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones Dr. Rajwant Singh Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed Jim Wallis

Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde, moderator

7 GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION SABBATH in partnership with Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence Saturday, March 16, 2013, 3 pm the eyes of the lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their cry

As the bell sounds, the People stand. call to prayer leader Turn from evil and do good; people seek peace and pursue it. leader The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, people and God’s ears are open to their cry.

The People sit. heartbeat of resolve audio montage psalm 34 Plainsong I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall ever be in my mouth. I will glory in the Lord; let the humble hear and rejoice. Proclaim with me the greatness of the Lord; let us exalt his Name together. I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me out of all my terror. Look upon him and be radiant, and let not your faces be ashamed. I called in my affliction and the Lord heard me and saved me from all my troubles. The angel of the Lord encompasses those who fear him, and he will deliver them. Taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are they who trust in him. Fear the Lord, you that are his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing. The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack nothing that is good. Come, children, and listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who among you loves life and desires long life to enjoy prosperity? Keep your tongue from evil-speaking and your lips from lying words. Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord hears them and delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and will save those whose spirits are crushed. Many are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord will deliver him out of them all. He will keep safe all his bones; not one of them shall be broken. Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished. The Lord ransoms the life of his servants, and none will be punished who trust in him. reflections Considering Resolve The Rev. Gina Gilland Campbell Hebrew Scripture and Reflection Rabbi Jonathan Roos

8 Christian Scripture and Reflection The. Rev. Dr. Serene Jones

Muslim Scripture and Reflection Imam Mohamed Magid musical meditation A Balm in Gilead arr. Shelton Beckton Valerie Kehembe Eichelberger, mezzo-soprano prayers for resolve Music Responsorial The People stand. The cantor sings the response once. The People sing the response twice.

A Prayer inspired by a letter from the Birmingham City Jail, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. people Amen. a brief silence is kept

A Prayer adapted from John Baille people Amen. a brief silence is kept

A Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer people Amen. a brief silence is kept

The People sit. prayer Acting in the Wake Dr. Walter Brueggemann written for this occasion musical benediction In manus tuas Domine John Sheppard (1515–1563) In manus tuas Domine, commendo spiritum meum. Redemisti me Domine, Deus veritatis. Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. For thou Lord, God of truth, hast redeemed me.

The People stand. The candle is extinguished and the worship leaders leave in silence.

9 ABOUT THE PANELISTS AND PARTICIPANTS for Saturday the rev. dr. delman coates has served as senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md., since February 2004. In eight years, the congregation has grown in excess of 7,500 members—adding 6,000 new disciples—initiating and revitalizing ministries, doubling the church’s ministry campus and land holdings, and changing the community in Prince George’s County, Md. Coates is a graduate of Morehouse College (B.A., religion), Harvard Divinity School (Master of Divinity), Columbia University (Master of Philosophy, religion), and Columbia University (Ph.D., New Testament and Early Christianity) colin goddard is the assistant director of victims and youth advocacy and federal legislation for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. He survived being shot four times during the worst school shooting in American history, the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007, which prompted him to become an advocate for sensible gun laws at the nation’s most prominent gun violence prevention advocacy group in June 2010. Colin graduated Virginia Tech in 2008, and since graduation has worked in Virginia state government, interned at the Brady Campaign, then lived and taught English in Lille, France. the rev. alvin herring is the newly appointed director of training at the pico National Network. Formerly the executive director of the Working Interfaith Network (win) in Baton Rouge, La., a pico federation, he has also served as lead organizer for pico in Richmond, Calif., and Contra Costa County. For many years Herring worked across the country as ceo and lead facilitator of Side By Side, bringing innovative diversity and community-building consulting and training to high school, college, and university campuses. Before coming to pico Herring served as the assistant vice president of campus life and dean of students at his alma mater, the University of Louisville. While there he also led the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice. the rev. dr. serene jones is the sixteenth president of the historic Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and the first woman to head the 176-year-old interdenominational seminary. Jones came to Union after 17 years as a professor at . She holds degrees from the University of , , and Yale University. Jones is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the . imam mohamed magid serves as executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (adams). His prior leadership experience includes posts as isna’s East Zone representative, vice president, and president. He has also served on the National Security Council and as a member of the fbi’s Muslim, Sikh, and Arab Advisory Board. In 2009, Washingtonian magazine named Imam Magid and Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk of Reston as “Washingtonians of the Year” for their collaboration in building bridges between faith communities. Imam Magid first studied Islam under African Sunni scholars including his own father, the grand mufti of Sudan, and continued his religious education in various Islamic disciplines as a resident scholar at Al-Madina Institute. He came to the United States in 1987. the rev. carol s. reese currently serves as violence prevention coordinator/chaplain for the Department of Trauma at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago, Ill. She also serves as site supervisor for social work interns and cpe students in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and Rush University Medical Center. Reese previously held the position of executive director for aids Pastoral Care Network in Chicago. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, completed Anglican studies at Seabury- Western Theological Seminary, a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

10 rabbi jonathan roos is senior rabbi at Temple Sinai, one of the oldest and largest congregations in Washington, D.C. He was ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion in 2002. Rabbi Roos is especially committed to building meaningful community by connecting people to Jewish traditions and each other and linking Sinai’s members with Israel. Rabbi Roos graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with honors in History and received a Master’s degree in American History from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and has served on various boards and leadership groups dr. rajwant singh is founder and chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education (score). Founded in 1998, score is dedicated to creating awareness of the Sikh religion and the Sikh people; promoting the positive role of Sikhs in America and globally; and upholding the values of religious freedom, civil rights, human dignity, justice, and nature preservation from the perspective of Sikhism. Singh was born in Calcutta, India, in 1961, immigrated to the United States in 1979, and settled in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. He completed a doctorate in Dental Surgery from the School of Dentistry at . Currently he has two dental offices and thriving dental practices in the Washington area. dr. sayyid m. syeed is the national director for the office for Interfaith and Community Alliances for the Islamic Society of North America (isna). Founded in 1963 and based out of Plainfield, Ind., isna is one of the largest and oldest Islamic umbrella associations in North America with more than 300 affiliates in the U.S. and Canada. Its mission is to provide Muslim organizations and individuals with a common platform for presenting Islam; supporting Muslim communities; developing educational, social, and outreach pro- grams; and fostering good relations with other religious communities and civic and service organizations. His office in Washington, D.C., runs inter-religious projects that have helped break down barriers of misunderstanding, form genuine partnerships of faith and ethics, and establish a platform to advocate for social justice issues for the common good. chris van hollen was elected to Congress in 2002. In addition to representing the 8th District of Maryland and serving in House leadership, he was reelected by his colleagues in 2012 to serve a second term as the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Georgetown University Law Center. jim wallis, ceo of Sojourners, is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, and international commentator on ethics and public life. He recently served on the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and currently serves as the chair of the Global Agenda Council on Faith for the World Economic Forum. Wallis is also editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, which has a combined print and electronic media readership of more than 250,000. He also appears as a commentator on television and radio. james winkler has served as general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society (gbcs), the international public policy and social justice agency of the United Methodist Church, since November 2000. As general secretary, Winkler has re-energized the work of gbcs around a three- part vision: to help United Methodists link mercy and justice, to connect the work of the board with local churches and annual conferences around the globe, and to be the premier denominational advocacy agency on Capitol Hill. Winkler studied history at the University of Illinois and George Mason University. After graduation from college, he served as a short-term missionary with the Pacific Conference of Churches and held several positions at gbcs before his current post.

11 ABOUT THE MODERATORS the rt. rev. mariann edgar budde is the spiritual leader of more than 40,000 Episcopalians in 89 congregations and 20 Episcopal schools in the District of Columbia and four Maryland counties (Montgomery, Prince George’s, Charles, and St. Mary’s). She also serves as the chair and president of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, which oversees the ministries of Washington National Cathedral and the three Cathedral schools. Budde was consecrated as the ninth bishop of Washington in November 2011. Prior to her election, she served for 18 years as rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, where she guided the congregation through significant membership and financial growth, two capital campaigns, and comprehensive ministry development. Budde served for ten years as a Conference Leader for credo, an organization committed to clergy wellness and vocational renewal. She helped lead the Diocese of Minnesota’s Commission for Mission Strategy, focusing her efforts on the renewal of congregations. Diocesan mission strategy also was the focus of her Doctor of Ministry thesis: “Engaging Leadership for Change.” A practitioner of systems theory, Bishop Budde loves working in complex organizations. Budde earned a B.A. in history at the University of Rochester, N.Y, graduating magna cum laude. She earned both her Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Virginia Theological Seminary. In May of 2012, Bishop Budde received an honorary doctorate from Virginia Theological Seminary. Her sermons have been published in several books and journals, and she is the author of Gathering the Fragments: Preaching as Spiritual Practice, published in 2007. the very rev. gary hall assumed his duties as the tenth dean of Washington National Cathedral on October 1, 2012. Hall has been an ordained minister for more than 35 years and most recently served as rector of Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Prior to his post in Michigan, Hall served as dean and president of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., from 2005 to 2010. Before that he served as rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, Penn., from 2000 to 2005. And for 11 years prior, he served as the senior associate for education at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., one of the largest and most influential parishes on the west coast. Hall was born in Los Angeles, Calif., and earned an A.B. in English at the University of California, Berkeley, before enrolling at the Episcopal Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass. He earned his M.Div. degree with distinction and started his career as a deacon intern and Bishop’s Chaplain in Los Angeles. He later earned a master’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. He added a C.Phil. (Candidate of Philosophy) credential and a Ph.D. in English, both from UCLA. Within the Episcopal Church, Hall has served as an interim rector in Taunton, Mass.; as associate rector at Christ Church Cranbrook (to which he returned as rector in 2010); and at parishes in California including in Westlake Village, Malibu, and La Canada.

12 THE SERVICE PARTICIPANTS for Saturday The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of Washington The Very Rev. Gary Hall, Cathedral Dean The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope, Cathedral Vicar The Rev. Gina Gilland Campbell, Cathedral Director of Worship The Rev. Lyndon Shakespeare, Cathedral Director of Program and Ministry Rabbi Jonathan Roos, Temple Sinai, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, President of the Faculty, Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y. Imam Mohamed Magid, Executive Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society, Va. Alexandra Zepeda, Manager, Cathedral Worship Department Publications Gita Ladd, Cello Valerie Kehembe Eichelberger, Mezzo-soprano Washington National Cathedral Girl Choristers Washington National Cathedral Men’s Choir Canon Michael McCarthy, Cathedral Director of Music Christopher Betts, Cathedral Organist and Associate Director of Music Benjamin Straley, Assistant Cathedral Organist and Coordinator of Piano Studies

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT Washington National Cathedral wishes to express profound gratitude to renowned theologian Walter Brueggemann for valuable conversation in shaping the worship for this day. In addition, the Cathedral gives thanks for Dr. Brueggemann’s generous gift of the new, original prayer, “Acting in the Wake,” written for this occasion.

SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013 Please join us on Sunday, March 17, when the Gun Violence Prevention Sabbath Weekend concludes with a forum discussion and the Sunday service of Holy Eucharist: 10:10 am - Cathedral Dean Gary Hall leads a discussion with psychologist and advocate Lauren Abramson about the place of reconciliation in our society—whether discord in a family or violence in a community—and about how it might offer hope to people in conflict. 11:15 am - The Cathedral community continues its Lenten journey with the regular Sunday service of Holy Eucharist at which Dean Hall provides another compelling sermon on the topic of gun violence.

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