Saturday, October 19, 2019

Peacemaking, Bullying and a Hamilton School Murder

I’ve had a bunch of blog ideas recently (so many that I haven’t been able to focus on actually finishing one), but something happened recently that I feel compelled to write about. A 14-year-old, Devan Selvey, was stabbed and killed outside of a Hamilton high school in front of his mom. Hearing about how this apparently sweet and kind kid was bullied for months, and then attacked and killed in front of his mother, shook me deeply. I don’t want to talk much about the specific incident, as that is all still under investigation, but I want to talk about some ills it may point to in our culture.