Ferguson & faith
Subtitle: sparking leadership & awakening community
By: Leah Gunning Francis ; foreword by Jim Wallis
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: St. Louis, Missouri
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780827211056
Subjects: Community development; Protest movements; Religious aspects; Social movements
Description: "The 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, MO, ignited a movement focused on criminal justice, race relations, economic disparity, and many more inequalities. Among the many newly recognized leaders in the movement were St. Louis area clergy. Leah Gunning Francis was among those religious leaders, and her interviews with more than two dozen clergy takes us behind the scenes of the protests' violent birth and the longer reconciliation the area faces in the wake of Brown's death-demonstrating that being called to lead a faithful life can take us to places we never expected to go"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Just protest this by prayer!; title: Praying with their feet; title: Not looking away; title: Jesus is in the street; title: Where have all the leaders gone?; title: This is what theology looks like; title: Why are your doors open to us?; title: There is a Ferguson near you; title: Standing on the side of love; title: #staywoke.