Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
America is flooded with guns -- about 400 million by one count. That’s more than one for every man, woman and child. The frequency of mass shootings is a distinctly American problem, yet there’s little agreement about what to do about this. Rhode Island-based author William J. Kole has a new book -- In Guns We Trust -- exploring the tightly wound relationship between white evangelicals, politics and guns. Kole is a longtime journalist and a former worship leader at evangelical churches in Europe and New England. What did he learn about why followers of Jesus Christ embrace guns and, in many cases, take them to church? And does Kole have any hope that Americans can come together to reduce the gun violence in our country? That’s just some of what Ian Donnis discusses with Kole in this in-depth conversation.
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America is flooded with guns -- about 400 million by one count. That’s more than one for every man, woman and child. The frequency of mass shootings is a distinctly American problem, yet there’s little agreement about what to do about this. Rhode Island-based author William J. Kole has a new book -- In Guns We Trust -- exploring the tightly wound relationship between white evangelicals, politics and guns. Kole is a longtime journalist and a former worship leader at evangelical churches in Europe and New England. What did he learn about why followers of Jesus Christ embrace guns and, in many cases, take them to church? And does Kole have any hope that Americans can come together to reduce the gun violence in our country? That’s just some of what Ian Donnis discusses with Kole in this in-depth conversation.
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