Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“It is fashionable to ‘prayer shame’ those who offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is taken as evidence that you condone violence or don’t feel tragedy deeply. Words are often inadequate. After a recent family hike during which the signs of fall were unmistakable, we felt the poignancy of the seasonal changes. Can that poignancy be expressed easily in words? Of course not, but penetrating feelings remain.” (09/03/25)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-thoughts-and-prayers