He had a vision where he saw himself typing an email with the subject line “Meet me in Ferguson.”
Jonathan Tremaine “J.T.” Thomas arrived in Ferguson, Missouri, on the day of Michael Brown’s funeral in August 2014. He was living in Indianapolis and had recently had a supernatural experience after reading about the teenager who was shot by a white police officer in suburban St. Louis. In the vision, Thomas saw himself typing an email with the subject line “Meet me in Ferguson.” Thomas, a Black evangelist and entrepreneur, was deeply disturbed by Brown’s killing.
Civil Righteousness was far from the only organization to view the place of Floyd’s death as an opportunity for Christian evangelism. So many ministriesthat the intersection became a kind of stage of its own for any aspiring leaders who wanted to display that they were at the physical center of an urgent national conversation on race.
He attends protests but does not see himself as a participant, exactly: He believes that his organization’s very presence—praying and talking with people on the ground—acts to tamp down unrest. “When our teams are there, we have seen the entire atmosphere change,” he said. “And the moment we leave, we see chaos break out.
“These movements today are being recapitulated with Black faces,” he said. “You have on the one hand the optics of Black authenticity, but you also have this rootedness in white evangelicalism. … I’m always leery of people who place themselves in center stage in a story of triumphalism and optimism.” He feels that many Black evangelicals “have been used by white evangelicals to suppress Black liberation.” “In the evangelical framework,” he said, “there’s no room for Black anger.
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