gun violence – Justin B. Fung

Reflecting on Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay, and Tyre Nichols

by Justinchurch, justice, personal 29 January, 202322 October, 2024No Comments

This is what I shared with my church on the morning of Sunday, January 29, 2023: As a staff, we felt it important to talk more directly about last weekend’s shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay among the Asian American community, and then the release of the videos showing the murder of Tyre …

Lament

by Justinchurch, justice, personal 31 May, 202222 October, 2024One Comment

From Sunday’s liturgy at Christ City Church; May 29, 2022. I am so tired of waiting.Aren’t you,for the world to become goodand beautiful and kind?Let us take a knifeand cut the world in two—and see what worms are eatingat the rind. Langston Hughes When hard things happen, when suffering shows up, when loss lingers, when …