{"id":341,"date":"2014-10-20T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/10\/ferguson-the-come-to-jesus-moment-for-us-in-the-church.html"},"modified":"2014-10-20T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:51:00","slug":"ferguson-the-come-to-jesus-moment-for-us-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/10\/ferguson-the-come-to-jesus-moment-for-us-in-the-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson: \u2018The \u2018Come to Jesus\u2019 Moment for Us in the Church\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Danielle Dowd was back in front of the Ferguson police department Oct. 15, just two days after being arrested there while protesting the fatal police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown and other African-American youths.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since Brown\u2019s Aug. 9 death, \u201cI\u2019ve come a couple of days every week, except for when my 7-year-old daughter had her tonsils out and I needed to do the mom thing. I\u2019ve been able to form some good relationships with young people, whose voices need to be heard,\u201d Dowd, 26, youth missioner for the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri<\/a>, told the Episcopal News Service (ENS).<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Rev. Jon Stratton, director of Episcopal Service Corps in the diocese<\/a>, spent Oct. 13 \u2013 his 30th birthday \u2013 marching, singing, chanting \u201cWhose streets? Our streets. Whose streets? God\u2019s streets,\u201d and ultimately, being arrested.<\/p>\n

They and other Episcopalians were among dozens jailed during a \u201cMoral Monday\u201d action at the Ferguson police department. It was part of a weekend series of acts of civil disobedience across the St. Louis region coordinated by \u201cHands Up, Don\u2019t Shoot<\/a>\u201d and the Organization for Black Struggle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The emerging movement, its youthful leadership and developing relationships have been compared to 1960s civil rights activism by some and called a human rights movement by others. It has also brought into the open long-festering tensions between the African-American community and the police department, and spawned calls for sweeping educational, economic and institutional change.<\/p>\n

The moment presents interesting opportunities for the church, says the Very Rev. Mike Kinman, dean of Christ Church Cathedral<\/a> in St. Louis. \u201cThis is the \u2018come to Jesus\u2019 moment for us in the church.\u201d<\/p>\n

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