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Want to Love Your Neighbor? Grieve With Them

By Elom Tettey-Tamaklo
People embrace outside the Hennepin County Government Center as they protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, arrested by police officers in Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. Credit: Reuters/Eric Miller
Dec 16, 2025
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Our shared planet is crumbling under the weight of human greed and exploitation; our neighbors are being snatched up and disappeared from our communities; and money for jobs and education is being used to fund wars and genocide. And I’m expected to believe that God is good?

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People embrace outside the Hennepin County Government Center as they protest the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, arrested by police officers in Minneapolis, Minn., May 28, 2020. Credit: Reuters/Eric Miller