{"id":31615,"date":"2012-03-28T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mark_pinsky_justice_for_trayvon_martin_where_are_our_white_faith_leaders\/"},"modified":"2012-03-28T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T15:45:36","slug":"mark_pinsky_justice_for_trayvon_martin_where_are_our_white_faith_leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31615","title":{"rendered":"Mark Pinsky: Justice For Trayvon Martin: Where Are Our White Faith Leaders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why were white clergy so reluctant to engage in this issue? It may be because they lead suburban congregations composed by and large of parishioners whose daily lives are socially isolated, antiseptic, homogeneous, and largely segregated by race and class. It may also be the lingering legacy of the South, except that many of the faith leaders, like those in the pews, have moved here from other regions of the country. They have different explanations for the silence. They may simply have been waiting for all the facts of the incident to emerge, and not rush to judgment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be honest, I don&#8217;t know why,&#8221; said the Rev. David Charlton, the recently arrive pastor of Sanford&#8217;s First United Methodist Church. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a good answer, and it&#8217;s happened on my front steps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mark-i-pinsky\/justice-for-trayvon-martin-where-the-white-faith-leaders_b_1381071.html\">Read it all<\/a> (and alert blog readers are asked to note the quote from Bishop Greg Brewer mentioned in the previous blog post&#8211;KSH)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to at KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why were white clergy so reluctant to engage in this issue? It may be because they lead suburban congregations composed by and large of parishioners whose daily lives are socially isolated, antiseptic, homogeneous, and largely segregated by race and class.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31615\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,114,435,184,151,120,107,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-ruraltown-life","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}