{"id":24778,"date":"2014-12-12T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=24778"},"modified":"2014-12-12T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:29:23","slug":"december-12-2014-churches-conversations-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/12\/12\/december-12-2014-churches-conversations-race\/24778\/","title":{"rendered":" Churches and Conversations on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are faith groups mobilizing on issues of race? Protests continue across the nation in the wake of grand jury decisions in Missouri and New York not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed African Americans. Religious groups have played a key role in many of the protests. This weekend (December 13-14) many churches are holding special services with the theme \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d and faith groups have been calling for a new national dialogue about race. Watch our conversation with Lisa Sharon Harper, senior director of mobilizing for the Christian social action group Sojourners, who says the most important thing churches and congregations can do to combat racism is to \u201clisten.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need to grow in understanding. We haven\u2019t listened to the young people, churches included, and so when I say \u201clisten\u201d I really mean listen to the stories of the young people,&#8221; says Lisa Sharon Harper of the Christian social action group Sojourners, &#8220;because they are ones bearing the brunt of most of the crisis we\u2019re experiencing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/12\/12\/december-12-2014-churches-conversations-race\/24778\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":24790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[6295,17810,1048,7221,2786],"class_list":["post-24778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-activism","tag-ferguson","tag-race","tag-racial-discrimination","tag-racism","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-race","faith-evangelical"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Churches and Conversations on Race<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/12\/12\/december-12-2014-churches-conversations-race\/24778\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Churches and Conversations on Race\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/12\/12\/december-12-2014-churches-conversations-race\/24778\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion &amp; 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