The hashtag prayingwithourfeet in social media applications and the website www.prayingwithourfeet.org was developed by the Clergy Coalition as a repository to post activities taking place that are moving the greater St. Louis community forward in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri police shooting death of Michael Brown.
Rev. Traci Blackmon, pastor of Christ the King United Church of Christ in nearby Florissant, Missouri said the title came from a quote by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, “Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.”
“It means that it’s not enough that we come into our churches and pray verbally or pray on our knees,” Blackmon said. “It means that our prayers have to have actions.
It’s really based on ‘faith without works is dead,’” a biblical references to James 2:14-26.
For more information, visit www.prayingwithourfeet.org.