Tag: Officer Jason Van Dyke

Before we say, ‘I forgive you’

.Reading time 8 minutes.

I am in a place that I had not anticipated and certainly could not have prepared for. It is the same feeling that I had after the shooting of nine bowed heads at Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2015. Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter, had hoped to start a race […]

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Why do we keep ending up here?

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked the question, “Where do we go from here?” His book Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community was published in 1967 and offers an essential question for meditation and movement.  It is a inquiry that requires us to look at our feet and to assess our surroundings. […]

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