The slogan WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) was popular some years ago.
It was a way of attempting to summarise a complicated ethical challenge to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. For all its brevity, and inevitable inaccuracy (there are some ways that the answer to what Jesus would do cannot be applied to mere mortals like you and me – walking on water, for one thing) it is an interesting question to ask about the current crisis taking place in Ferguson.
Ferguson is a suburb of St Louis in Missouri located in the middle of the United States. On 9 August a white policeman, Darren Wilson, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Some say Darren Wilson was in fact trying to surrender when he was shot. Others, including the policeman, say that Brown was attacking Wilson.
