Follow our Missional Liturgy class on their page. Here are the instructor’s remarks on the Oregon shooting.
Here we go again. Here is our national liturgy.
A young man walks into a building armed to the teeth. Students die. The police arrive. The young man dies in a shootout with the police. It is a complex and devastating suicide. So many lives are marked. A community is marked. And the media storm begins.
Our liturgy moves from the local to the international at the speed of the internet.
The National Rifle Association contra mundum, Liberals and Conservatives are squaring off, and Pundits are shouting. The beleaguered President Obama predicts that he will have to address the nation again before his term is over when there is another mass shooting. The media is on fire. For now.
The liturgy gradually comes to a close as our shared attentions are drawn elsewhere by the always updating Twitter feed.
Somewhere someone is making plans to kill or injure another…
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