DEEP WATERS

It's been exactly two weeks since Michael Brown , age 18, was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.  Other than a few discussions at home with my family, I haven't talked much about this volatile situation. I've wanted to share about it here in Deep Waters , but I've wanted to speak intelligently about it. There's just so much I don't know about this case right now. And then I received an email from a sweet sister-friend that told me she'd checked my blog for my reaction to the Ferguson crisis. She encouraged me to "weigh-in" here, and I knew I needed to break my silence. I feel like I did when I wrote about the Trayvon Martin crisis back in May 2012 in "Our Sons Are Trayvon." I feel the way I did when I wrote about the verdict in the Zimmerman trial back in July 2013 in "Zimmerman Found Not Guilty/The Church Found Guilty" . I feel like there's so much I don't know. I wasn...

It's been a month and one day since the February 26th  slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida . Much has transpired in the past month, and I've kept silent through all of it. I just can't hold my tongue -- or fingertips -- any longer. So let me start with what I'm not going to do here: I am not going to rant and rave I will not try George Zimmerman in the court of "Deep Waters" I'm not going to post a picture of myself in a hoodie (though I'm loving the impact of those  images I'm seeing on Facebook and Twitter) But I would like to examine this tragedy and share what God is teaching me through it. Justice Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I agree wholeheartedly. Injustice in India is injustice in the United States. Injustice in Kenya is injustice in Great Britain. Injustice in Sanford, Florida is injustice ...