Reflections on Ferguson, by Bryan Berghoef.
First published at Huffington Post Religion.
My social media feeds are filled with voices of friends mourning, shocked, and deeply saddened. African-American friends are feeling deep pain at the perpetual injustices their community experiences. Injustices that are not incidental. Injustices that are systemic.
Many of my white and other non-black friends are also expressing their outrage and mourning. Rightly so.
But other voices of white friends also come across the screen: Continue Reading..
In recent years, my family has navigated some rough patches; death, cancer treatments, open heart surgeries, chronic disease, etc. Now, I’m certain this isn’t everyone’s experience, but mine has been that in these times of trauma or tragedy, family comes together to stand with one another as we wrestle through life’s crap. We aren’t picking fights, we are crying on each other’s shoulders.