understand her story and journey, to try in some way to incarnate her pain and pilgrimage. This is the way forward into oneness. We will never experience true Christian unity when one ethnicity demands of another that we keep silent about our pain and travails. The way forward is not an appeal to the facts as a first resort, but an attempt to get inside each other’s skin as best as we can to feel what they feel and to seek to understand it. Tragedies such as the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson are like MRIs that reveal the hurt that still lingers, and the chasm that exists between
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