How Ferguson Taught me To Love Cops and Looters

August 25th, 2014 | 7 min read

Editor's note: Jack Bates is a PhD student in historical theology at Wheaton College, studying the theology and practice of the early church to enrich the theology and practice of the church today. He visited Ferguson at the peak of the unrest and offers this reflection.

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