“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”                                                               -Matthew 22. 36-40

Much has been said and written about the shooting of Michael Brown, and hopefully, as the news cycle begins to pick up other stories, we will not turn away and forget this. The issue of racism has been raised, yet again, as has the militarization of our local police forces. The…