“I can’t breathe.”

Pastor Matthew Best
5 min readMay 27, 2020

“I can’t breathe.”

That’s the words a man said loud enough to be caught on video in Minnesota.

One story on the incident started this way — “A man exclaiming “I can’t breathe” as a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground and put his knee on the man’s neck for about eight minutes died Monday night…” ( Source)

“I can’t breathe.”

Three words. I wonder how many us can’t breathe right now. Not in a literal way. But for this man, and for so many others, it is literal. And not breathing is costly. It cost him his…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.