What are folks doing to commemorate this horrific landmark? What are folks doing to creatively and sensitively express support and concern for our soldiers, while at the same time attempting to speak a prophetic and constructive word about the sacrificial witness of Jesus, whose violent death on the cross was to be forever, for you and for me, God’s definitive ‘no’ to our preponderance to agitate and escalate the cycle of violence — inner-personally and inter-personally, locally and globally?
I know and trust that we share a fundamental vocation as Christians here in this time and place to bear witness to God — shining light in the darkness. What it will look like for us, I don’t really know. But I think it’s time we start thinking and acting like we believe God actually has something to say about the state of the world we live in. How shall we live? What shall we do? Who’s active on this in Spokane? How can we support and encourage each other?
