This was Memorial Day weekend in the US, and I hope it was meaningful for those who observed it. I took part in the other tradition often associated with this holiday in the US: weddings. Due to the three-day weekend, it is one of the most popular wedding dates, and on Saturday my cousin married his high school sweetheart.
Our video of the week offers another kind of memorial. A few weeks ago, I mentioned Jonathan Tran’s column about attending the trial of someone who killed one of Tran’s students in a hit-and-run incident. In a longer and more emotional video than is typical for our YouTube channel, Tran talks for 51 minutes with Clark and Diane Grotberg, the parents of the student who was killed. They discuss many topics, including God’s presence in the grieving process.
“I was interested in how Greg Garrett would present Baldwin’s own relationship to the faith. Baldwin was clear he had left the church, but there’s something religious about so many of his visions and aspirations.”
“When I sat with members of the congregation with a worshiping attendance of five, I learned that three of them were baptized there as babies. They are now in their 70s.”
CC Voices columnist Jonathan Tran talks with the parents of David Grotberg, who was killed in a hit-and-run incident seven years ago. They discuss truth-telling, sustaining faith, grief, grace, and more.
