Demons, Despair, Discipleship

I read a story like this, a story about somebody like Jedidiah Brown, and it's like reading another gospel.  "A Gospel According to Chicago."  It's hard.  It's brutal.  And somehow it's about a real human being, fighting his demons, trusting his love, wrestling with despair.  He picks up a cross and it damn near kills him.  But somehow.  Somehow Jedidiah Brown carries on.  (It's a powerful, prophetic and timely read--for anyone who cares a lot, or too much, in 2017.)

Bravo to writer Ben Austen, and the team, who did the reporting on this.  It's just plain brilliant.  And it's relentless.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/trauma-black-activism/