{"id":3469,"date":"2023-12-22T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2023-12-22T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T18:45:07","slug":"spirit-of-peace-holds-gun-violence-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2023\/12\/22\/spirit-of-peace-holds-gun-violence-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Peace holds gun violence vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/gun-violence-vigil-Michigan-2023.jpg\" alt=\"People in orange t-shirts carry anti-war signs\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/gun-violence-vigil-Michigan-2023.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/gun-violence-vigil-Michigan-2023-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/gun-violence-vigil-Michigan-2023-560x366.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The \u201cPlant Justice Grow Peace\u201d group from Spirit of Peace Church of the Brethren in East Lansing, Mich., at a vigil against gun violence.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The \u201cPlant Justice Grow Peace\u201d group<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/churchofthebrethrenlansing.org\/\">Spirit of Peace Church of the Brethren<\/a> in East Lansing, Mich., held a vigil against gun violence on June 2, for National Gun Violence Awareness Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mass shooting on Feb. 13, 2023, killed three students at Michigan State University (MSU) and injured five. The church\u2019s rented sanctuary is in the University United Methodist Church, across the street from campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a discussion during a Gun Violence Campaign Meetup with On Earth Peace, the group purchased orange t-shirts featuring the church logo and the slogan \u201cNo More Silence, End Gun Violence\u201d and wore them for the vigil in front of the state capitol building in Lansing. <em>\u2014Beverly Leaf<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/\">Messenger magazine<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cPlant Justice Grow Peace\u201d group at Spirit of Peace Church of the Brethren held a vigil for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[491,493,337,492,196,490],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-michigan","tag-16-208","tag-gun-violence","tag-jesus-in-the-neighborhood","tag-michigan-district","tag-peace","tag-spirit-of-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}