Helping cops cope with traumatic violence: VALEAP

  1. Expanding access to healthy food: Shalom Farms at Union
  2. Helping cops cope with traumatic violence: VALEAP
  3. Marking milestones at The Presbyterian Outlook
  4. Memory sanctions & Confederate statues
  5. The rise of Womanism: Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon
  6. Understanding Muslims: Dr. Zeyneb Sayilgan
  7. Union matters! podcast: God and the sanctuary movement
  8. Union matters! podcast: Perils of peacemaking
  9. How to revitalize a church through music and drama

We had our phones turned off during this interview to avoid interruption. So we didn’t know that as we were talking Nikolas Cruz allegedly walked into his Parkland, Florida, school and opened fire on classmates and teachers. it was one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. We are indeed living in very dangerous times. The police are traumatized by it too. They have a hard time asking for emotional help because, among cops, that’s been seen as a weakness.  The Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program (VALEAP) is working to change all that by giving officers the support they desperately need. In our Union matters! podcast, co-founder and Union Presbyterian Seminary alumnus Alex Evans, and Richmond Police Sergeant Carol Adams, sat down with Joe Slay at Second Presbyterian Church in downtown Richmond to explain, what they call, their life-and-death ministry.