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Gun Violence
Last weekend, two hate-motivated attacks shocked our consciences once again. The first was on Saturday, when a White Supremacist murdered ten mostly elderly African Americans in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. That terrorist used an assault rifle style weapon in the brutal attack and in a lengthy manifesto published online wrote about the conspiracy theory that racial minorities are “replacing” White people in America. Then, a day later, another attack took place in a Taiwanese church in Orange…
Lament for Anti-Asian Hatred & Violence
In seminary Dr. Soong-Chan Rah taught me about the power of lament. If you haven’t already read Prophetic Lament, I highly recommend it. Lament is the proper response of God’s people to our anger and grief at injustice and tragedy in this world. We cry out to the God of justice to make all things new. We join with our sisters and brothers in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community today in lament over the grievous murders that took…
Those Who Dream – Advent
Psalm 126 begins “When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.” This is an expression of great joy and hope. In it we can place ourselves, at the intersection of the harsh realities of this world and the joyous future God is bringing about. As Kingdom people, we live in that tension, and Advent is all about that tension. Next Sunday, we enter into the powerful season of Advent. Advent is a season of…
Lament for COVID-19, Immigrant Detainees, and Breonna Taylor
Unless you’ve managed to complete tune out of what’s going on in the world today, you are probably experiencing some level of stress right now. To many of us, it feels like the world’s violence, injustice, brokenness, and division has been on full display lately and it’s honestly scary. Just for starters, the world is very close to 1 million deaths due to the COVID-19 virus, and the United States has more than 20% of those deaths, surpassing 200,000 deaths.…
Lament for Ahmaud Arbery & Doug Lewis
Hey Roots Family, Just a few months ago, we were journeying through the season of Lent together with Isaiah 58 framing our thoughts. We focused on how God’s people are called not just to observe personal spiritual practices like fasting which are good, but that our worship of God is to form us into a people who have eyes to see injustice in society and that our love for God is expressed in our love of our neighbors. In that series,…
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