Ecumenical Social Justice Walk and Organizer Lynn Godfrey

social injustice: Organizer Lynn Godfrey said the event is meant to remind Christians that the gospel preached by their saviour is just empty words without action to heal the wounds of the world. "Any time we see injustice, Christ is crucified again, and he is still being crucified today," she said, according to Hamilton Spectator. The event consisted of eight stops downtown, each with a lesson against some form of social injustice linked to a piece of the Easter story. The event was the 16th annual Ecumenical Social Justice Walk, a symbolic tracing of Jesus' journey to crucifixion marked by breaks to preach a gospel that many who call themselves Christian today would not recognize. In the social hall of New Vision United Church, for example, a quartet of Hamilton Mennonites preached of Jesus suffering alone in the Garden of Gethsemane and tied that to the isolation and suffering of those who are alone in Hamilton today. One boy who wrote of his experience, but couldn't bring himself to deliver the tale, leaving it to adult member, told of how he "started hanging out with the wrong people" and by 15 had fathered a child, carried a weapon wherever he went and was expelled from school. "No matter what I did in those days, I was wrong," he wrote. A block away, the message was the betrayal of Judas Iscariot as a sermon against the evil of youth crime preached by students of Cathedral high school. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.