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Martin Pengelly

Senate chaplain: ‘thoughts and prayers’ not enough after Nashville shooting

Barry C Black said: ‘Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous. Use them to battle the demonic forces that seek to engulf us.’
Barry C Black said: ‘Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous.’ Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

The chaplain who leads prayers in the US Senate said on Tuesday: “When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers.”

Barry C Black was referring to the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, in which three nine-year-olds and three adults were killed. The shooter was killed by police.

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