On a hot summer evening two and a half years ago my daughter, Charis, and I met some of our Madison neighbors whom we never had met before.
We were walking in a community prayer march on the southside initiated by Mt. Zion Baptist Church. We prayed at Penn Park, the South Madison bus transfer station, Goodman South Library and the Boys and Girls Club. The neighborhood prayer march was an effort to walk the streets, take back the streets, and to pray that God would bring hope and healing to our city and bring an end to the unprecedented violence and killings we were experiencing that summer and in the first half of 2017.