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RELIGION 7A Weekend, June 21-22, 2014 Telegraph-Forum What if retired border guards worked as salesmen? their homes without a gun? Where does this fear come from?" When I got back to the hotel, I was bemoaning my crossing difficulties with Amy, the clerk, when I asked, "Why do we need a border? We're all the same here in North America." "Actually," she said, "there are only two differences between a Canadian and an American." "Really?" I said. "A Canadian is an unarmed American with health care," she said. "Good one, Amy. Good one." Send comments to Chaplain Norris at askthechaplain.net or P.O. Box 247, Elk Grove, CA 95759.

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It's a real nice place. Maybe you know Amy, the kind desk clerk?" "Can't say as I do. When do you fly home?" "In 10 days." "You're staying here 10 days?" "No." "But you just "We are going to drive to Montreal to catch a cruise to Boston," I explained. After asking a dozen more questions, he finally said, "OK. Have a nice trip." Truthfully, while I've exaggerated this story, the crossing did inspire an idea.

What would it be like if we could employ retired border guards to use their interrogative skills on potential gun buyers? Honestly, I thought as I jogged the bridge, border guards make you wait in a long line and give the fifth degree when you pass, but the only thing you need to buy a gun is 10 minutes and a driver's license. If Martinez and his border colleagues could run gun sales, they'd be asking the pertinent questions, such as, "Gee, sir, what are you planning to do with 3,000 rounds of ammunition?" or "Do you plan on firing this gun or just scaring Starbucks customers with your "open carry" bling? Just think how different things might be if a clerk with rudimentary therapeutic skills had asked the campus shooters in Santa Barbara and Seattle, "How are you really doing today, sir? Are you being bullied? Are you thinking maybe it's payback time?" Perhaps an inquisitive profiler like Officer Martinez might intercede with questions like, "Yes sir, silencers are legal, but why do YOU need one?" Or maybe he'd add, "Is this a 'straw purchase' for someone who can't legally buy a gun?" I admit this column has dabbled far into hyperbole. I know we can't employ law enforcement to sell guns. But still, the facts are that we've had 74 mass shooting since Sandy Hook when we promised to God we'd do something about the violence. As people of faith, we must ask ourselves some valid questions like, "Why are people so afraid to leave 'OFFERING OF FLOWERS' Muppets?" He heaved a deep sigh.

"Norris? Like Chuck Norris?" I raised flattened hands to offer my Norris Burkes Gannett best Chuck Norris move. "What are you doing, sir?" "Uh, nothing," I said. Just when I thought he was going to drill a hole in my head to purge the stupid buildup, he asked, "Where are you going, sir?" "I'm running to the park," I said. "After that?" he asked. "My hotel." "What hotel?" 'The Roadside," I stuttered.

"Never heard of it." 129 W. Charles will host "The Gathering!" featuring the praise band Out of Chaos from 5 to 7 p.m. June 29. This free event is a program of praise, music and pizza, and is open to the public. Gospel concert with Kevin Wilson on June 28 BUCYRUS New Day Ministries, 301 E.

Warren will present a free country gospel concert with Kevin Wilson at 6 p.m. June 28. For details, call 419-563-0735. Community meal Sunday at First Baptist Church BUCYRUS First Baptist Church, 235 Woodlawn will have a meal for the hungry from 4 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the church.

glar's hands and was then used to kill a fellow priest who tried to help. Many American Catholic leaders have argued that church teaching compels them to advocate for greater limits on guns. But self-defense is also part of Catholic theology, and Catholics have different views of the issue. Concern about security at churches has grown in the last decade or so in the wake of several high-profile shootings. The Diocese of Phoenix has no policy on priests carrying guns.

Pastor Hap celebrating Submitted story BUCYRUS The Rev. Harold Luther Hase-nauer, known as Pastor Hap, will retire as visitation pastor for Good Hope Lutheran Church on Julyl after serving the Rev. Harold Hasenauer church ministry for 1934 years. At the same time, he will celebrate 59 years of ministry throughout the Lutheran Church in the East and Midwest. Pastor Hap will preach at the 8:30 and 10:45 a.m.

services Sunday at the church, 129 W. Charles St. He studied fine arts in 1947and 1948 on an art scholarship to then Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, which is now Carnegie-Mellon University. He sensed his God-given call to ministry that spring and continued college studies that fall Members of the Bat Nh Buddhist Temple in Little Rock, perform "The Offering of Flowers" during the grand opening Sunday of Quan Am's new Temple and the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace World Tour. The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace is the largest Buddha statue carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world and will be on exhibit through this Sunday at Quan Am Monastery in Memphis, Tenn.

ap My wife and I were vacationing in Niagara Falls, Canada, last week when I took a 6-mile run through pouring rain to the New York side. I was looking to claim bragging rights on running across an international border on the picturesque Rainbow Bridge. At the American crossing, I waited for an entire busload of people to be processed, before a dour Officer Martinez motioned me to show my passport. "Where were you born?" he asked. "Kermit, Texas." "Pardon?" "Kermit." I said, "Like the frog." "What frog? Are you bringing frogs?" "What? No! It's Kermit, like in The Chasing Christ 5K RunWalk event is June 28 in Galion GALION First Lutheran Church, 127 S.

Columbus will host the Chasing Christ 5K RunWalk on June 28. There is a $17 cost for registration, with a T-shirt guaranteed. Cost on race day is $20. To register, call or text John Helms at 419-612-2853. There will be a free breakfast after the race in the church basement.

Proceeds will go toward the 2015 Detroit Rise Up Together Youth gathering trip. Volunteers and sponsors are needed. Visit www.galionfirst lutheran.org for details. 'The set for June 29 at Good Hope BUCYRUS Good Hope Lutheran Church, Burglary at Arizona church raises questions about clergy and weapons PHOENIX (AP) A deadly burglary at an Arizona church is raising questions about the wisdom of clergy possessing weapons, no matter how dangerous their mission. Authorities say a Roman Catholic priest responding to a break-in last week at his downtown Phoenix church grabbed a handgun that ended up in the bur Bankruptcy DivorceDissolution CriminalTraffic Defense Thomas G.

Nicholson Attorney 419-562-8998 Legal Clinic Prices We are a debt relief agency. We help people file for bankruptcy under the Bankruotcv Code. retiring, 59 years at a school of the Lutheran Church, Muhlenberg College, in Allen-town, Pennsylvania, graduating with a bachelor of arts in English in 1952. His theological education was at the Lutheran School of Theology in Philadelphia, from 1952-1955. Following Harold's seminary graduation in May 1955, he received his first call to ministry at Trinity Lutheran Church in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Scranton.

His other callings have included the St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania; Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in North Caldwell, New Jersey; St. John in Uniontown, Ohio; and Messiah Lutheran Church in Ur-bana, Ohio. Pastor Hap and Carol intend to remain in Bucyrus and spend more time with family, art and watercolor painting. Sat.

8am 7pm Sun. 10am 6pm and elementary school children. Registration deadline was May 25. For details, call 419-492-4664. Wayside Chapel, 2341 Kerstetter Road: Children 4 years old through sixth grade can take-off aboard "Direct Connect Prayer-lines" from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Sunday through June 26 with skits, songs, Bible dramas, awards, snacks, games and more. For details or to register, call the church at 419-562-2812. lmmillergannett.com or fax 419-562-9162 Victory in Truth Ministries, 485 Ohio 4 South: "Weird Animals" VBS, "Where Jesus' Love Is One of a Kind" is 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday through June 25, for toilet-trained children ages 3 to 12. Register at www.vitm.com.

For information, call 419-563-9565. Nazareth Lutheran Church, Chatfield: "Re-New" Vacation Bible School is 11:30 a.m. Sunday and June 29. Kids will explore Jesus' "Parable of the Sower." Activities geared toward preschool A Phil's Deli 814 Harding Way West Galion 419-462-DELI(3354) VISA www.philsdeliofgalion.com 3 M-F 8am 8pm WARNING of DANGER GUIDING to SAFETY Lighthouse Baptist Church Expounding the Scripture Exalting the Saviour Edifying the Saints rt "-3 't Weekly Specials for June 23-29 Sunday Mtgs. 9:30, 10:45, 6:00 3 Mile South of Bucyrus on St.

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