While the names of the schools or churches or entertainment venues change, it’s inevitable that our news feeds will fill with headlines detailing hundreds of mass shootings annually.

Some resulting in more deaths than others, but all tragic nonetheless.

This week, it was Annunciation Church in south Minneapolis, where, as of this writing, two children had been killed and 17 more people injured.

My home state, in other words.

Lord, have mercy.

This latest shooting grips me more than other recent mass shootings because at the very same time that the killer opened fire from outside the church with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, I was presiding over the back-to-school convocation at a Lutheran-affiliated high school in my hometown.

While I was waiting to be introduced by the senior class

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