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Author Francis, Leah Gunning, author.

Title Ferguson & faith : sparking leadership & awakening community / Leah Gunning Francis ; foreword by Jim Wallis
Edition First edition
Published St. Louis, Missouri : Chalice Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- Just protest this by prayer! -- Praying with their feet -- Not looking away -- Jesus is in the street -- Where have all the leaders gone? -- This is what theology looks like -- Why are your doors open to us? -- There is a Ferguson near you -- Standing on the side of love -- #staywoke
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Protest movements -- Missouri -- Ferguson
Social movements -- Religious aspects.
Community development -- Missouri -- Ferguson
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Community development
Protest movements
Social movements -- Religious aspects
Missouri -- Ferguson
Genre/Form Social movements
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015022562
ISBN 9780827211070
0827211074
9780827211063
0827211066
Other Titles Ferguson and faith