A Different Approach To Combating Violence In Society

Commentary
By John A. Ostenburg

A few months ago, members of various faith communities in Park Forest began to gather on the first Wednesday of the month in a prayer vigil for peace. The impetus for these prayer vigils was the shooting and killing of a young resident of our town.

It wasn’t the first incident of that type, albeit Park Forest suffers from such acts of violence far less frequently than…