"Good afternoon, Cathedral community. As we gather today and ask the question, "Where do we go from here?," we are guided by the wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr. Nearly 60 years ago, as he posed the same question, he reminded us of an essential truth: "In order to answer the question, 'Where do we go from here,' we must first honestly recognize where we are now.""
"My horror only deepened as I watched the video of an ICE agent fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good as if her life were collateral damage in a wider political struggle. She was a mother, she was a wife, she was a daughter, she was a sacred child of God. How does it become acceptable to violate that? I wondered how it is that a sacred human life has become so expendable."
The community is called to ask 'Where do we go from here?' and to first honestly recognize current realities. The present moment is described as despairing, marked by normalized cruelty and dehumanization. An ICE raid called "Operation Midway Blitz" is cited where families were dragged from their homes and a fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good is recounted as evidence of lives treated as expendable. The erosion of reverence for human life, the spread of false and divisive narratives, and increasingly crude public discourse are presented as symptoms of the crisis. Despair is identified as fertile ground for oppression and authoritarianism.
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