Prayer, Protest and Protection
July 14, 2016
In a recent commentary posted by Religion News Service, Mercer University professor and columnist David Gushee wrote, “Government authorities, such as police officers, are public servants. They are frightening only to those who do wrong. They are supposed to hold no terror for those who are not bad and have done no wrong. Much of the time, they do exactly what they are supposed to do, and for this we can be grateful. “But they are armed. And the weapons they carry can easily kill people. This means that police officers must be trained to be extraordinarily disciplined in their
