{"id":31524,"date":"2016-07-15T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=31524"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:42:20","slug":"violence-law-enforcement-race-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/07\/15\/violence-law-enforcement-race-justice\/31524\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence, Law Enforcement, Race and Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid this week\u2019s interfaith memorial service for the slain police officers in Dallas and ongoing protests against police killings of black men, many faith leaders have been calling for dramatic changes in race relations, law enforcement policies and the pursuit of justice. Host Bob Abernethy and Managing Editor Kim Lawton talk about the current challenges and prospects for healing with Lisa Sharon Harper of the Christian social justice group <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/\">Sojourners<\/a><\/em> and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/waterbrookmultnomah.com\/books\/533775\/the-very-good-gospel-by-lisa-sharon-harper-foreword-by-water-brueggemann\/\"><em>The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can be Made Right<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe need to deal with the unconscious beliefs that we have about each other,\u201d says Lisa Sharon Harper, author of The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can be Made Right. \u201cWe can\u2019t restructure our society and actually begin to heal what race broke until we understand how our society structures have created biases in our own minds.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/07\/15\/violence-law-enforcement-race-justice\/31524\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-race","topics-us-domestic-issues","faith-christian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Violence, Law Enforcement, Race and Justice | July 15, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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