UnCommon Gospel September 2015 | Page 48

News Healing at Street Level in Boston, Baltimore & Beyond By John M. Borders, III Americans are in pain. While riding home on I-93 South, I passed the Electricians Union Hall, a local branch of the AFL-CIO. A digital message board over the building projected a message that touched thousands of stuck in rush-hour traffic. “Today, justice Prevails.” Being a Bostonian, you instinctively know it is a reference to the jury’s decision that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty of over thirty charges relating to the Boston Marathon Bombing two years ago. It has taken two years for the bombing victims and their families to feel a little relief. Still, these victims and their families must endure another month of hearings while the jury decides between life in prison and the death penalty. Personally, I’ve seen enough death in t