On May 25th America watched a great tragedy, a man in Minneapolis died with a police officer's knee on his back while pleading for his life. Since then, protests and riots have flooded our streets and towns, and Americans have become more and more divided. Black vs. white Cops are bad vs. cops are good. Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter As we have moved forward with this, the lines of nuance have continued to become more blurred, everyone is screaming louder and louder, but no one is...

I (Lauren) spent this morning reading the book Suffering is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliott for class, very timely. At the beginning of the book, she defines suffering as “wanting what you do not have or having what you do not want.” Her definition of suffering intends to cover everything from the most trivial day to day inconveniences to life-changing devastation. Almost everyone is suffering currently. As a collective, we have what we do not want, a pandemic, and many of us are...