A Bible and a gun? How churches, temples, mosques are rethinking security

Pastor Mark Whitlock heard the news when he was in his office, surrounded by a security team, as he prepared to deliver his Sunday service.
There was another mass shooting, he heard. And it happened at a church — again.
“We began to weep,” said Whitlock, pastor of Christ Our Redeemer African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Irvine. “It shook us to our very core.”
The shooting Whitlock referenced was at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. On Nov. 5,