The window from my office overlooks
There, inscribed on the city’s tallest building, is a quote from the Book of Proverbs: “Where there is no vision the people perish.”
Maybe our vision is cloudy. Or perhaps our eyes have been averted. In any case, our relatively small city, with just 77,000 people across the Delaware River from
There are exceptions. The people of St. Anthony of
Another memorial to the victims of
This vision to face the violence is a first step. Just for comparison sake: if
Yet
We also need to hear from our political leaders, particularly those in
As Christians, we know that Jesus suffered a violent death, yet his resurrection points us toward the hope that somehow new life can come from this tragic situation. We are a people who claim the wood of the cross, the very object of violence. The memorial field of crosses next to
As people of faith, we have no easy answers. Yet we cry out for vision, for new ways to address this crisis of violence, so that our people may no longer perish.