Reverend Warnock and the case for the Religious Left

Unholier Than Thou

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Reverend Raphael Warnock’s name has been in the news a lot lately as the Senate race heats up in Georgia. Just last week, WNBA players—alongside Stacey Abrams and Elizabeth Warren—endorsed Rev. Warnock’s bid to replace Senator Kelly Loeffler, an anti-Black Lives Matter conservative, in November. Phill talked to Reverend Warnock about what called him to the church—and now, to politics—and how faith has influenced his policy choices from reproductive justice to voting rights.

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0:00.0	From Cricket media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host Philip Picardy.
0:18.0	It's an election year dominated by a global pandemic sweeping nationwide protests and of course the Veeep stakes
0:26.5	Breaking news Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has made his choice.
0:31.2	NBC News has confirmed that Biden has picked California Senator
0:35.2	Kamala Harris to be his running mate, the first woman of color in history,
0:40.2	to be chosen for such a position.
0:42.3	That means it can be hard for local political hopefuls
0:45.0	to get national media attention.
0:47.0	But that's not the case for Raphael Warnock, a Georgia US Senate hopeful.
0:51.0	Last week, players of the W.N.B. A emerged from their team buses, wearing t-shirts with two
0:56.7	words, Vote Warnock, written across their chests. Images of their demonstration quickly
1:01.7	went viral.
1:02.6	A political statement tonight from members of the Atlanta Dream Against their owner.
1:07.5	Dream Player Elizabeth Williams tweeted this photograph right here wearing a vote war knock shirt.
1:12.8	Members of the Wnba entered the fray to make a defiant statement against the incumbent
1:17.2	Senator Kelly Lofler, who co-owns the team The Atlanta Dream.
1:20.8	Lofler, a former cryptocurrency executive, has spoken out against the Black Lives Matter movement.
1:25.9	The majority of the W NBA's players, it should be said, are black women.
1:30.1	Warnock now finds himself at the center of national news and sports headlines.
1:34.1	While his progressive politics are not atypical of many of his fellow Democratic challengers,
1:38.8	what is different is his approach.
1:41.2	Warnock is the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia,
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