{"id":47061,"date":"2014-11-26T03:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ed_stetzer-a_decision_in_ferguson_how_should_evangelicals_respond\/"},"modified":"2014-11-26T03:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:30:13","slug":"ed_stetzer-a_decision_in_ferguson_how_should_evangelicals_respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47061","title":{"rendered":"Ed Stetzer&#8211;A Decision in Ferguson: How Should Evangelicals Respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the grand jury decision handed down tonight in the wake of Michael Brown\u2019s death in Ferguson, MO, I think it is of utmost importance that all Christians, but specifically white evangelicals, talk a little less and listen a little more.<\/p>\n<p>Or, put another way, maybe some need to spend less time insisting that African Americans shouldn&#8217;t be upset and spend more time asking why some are. Yes, this case reminds us again that the racial divide is clear, as a just released CNN poll demostrated.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t in the grand jury room, and I don&#8217;t know the evidence, but many godly African American leaders are hurting and they are explaining why.<\/p>\n<p>I think we should listen to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2014\/november\/decision-in-ferguson-how-should-evangelicals-respond.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the grand jury decision handed down tonight in the wake of Michael Brown\u2019s death in Ferguson, MO, I think it is of utmost importance that all Christians, but specifically white evangelicals, talk a little less and listen<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47061\">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":[39,40,42,168,419,114,154,578,151,120,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47061","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=47061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}