A Barna Group study says that more than three-quarters of American pastors support peaceful protests like the ones taking place all across the country.
The demonstrations come after the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck.
The study surveyed some 400 pastors, the Christian Post reports.
The survey showed that 76 percent believe churches should support the protest. Fifteen percent disagreed, and 8 percent said they had no opinion on the issue.
“Church leaders are actively leaning in on conversations about racism in America in a way that they haven’t in the past,” Barna President David Kinnaman told The Christian Post.
“It may surprise some, but it did not surprise me that 76% of church leaders believe the church should support peaceful protests or demonstrations happening across the nation,” Kinnaman said.
About 62 percent also said they believe the churches had addressed the protests. A staggering 94 percent said they believe the church has a responsibility to publicly denounce racism.
“We saw in The Mercy Journey two years ago that 70% of pastors believed that the church should respond in some way – lament, repent, repair the damage – to the historic mistreatment of African Americans, and this moment has given them more clarity about how to engage.
“What the church seems to have been convinced of in…
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