Steve Schmidt & Bishop William Barber: A Moral Reckoning
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Steve Schmidt is joined by Bishop William Barber, president, Repairers of the Breach and founding director and professor, Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. They discuss the excesses and greed of America’s oligarchy, Trump’s messiah complex, our urgent message to future Democratic leaders, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Friled to be with you. |
| 0:07.8 | I think we're live. |
| 0:08.8 | There we go. |
| 0:10.2 | Bishop Barber. |
| 0:12.0 | How are you, my friend? |
| 0:13.5 | I'm well and clear about your warning and the war and the battle that we're in, very clear. |
| 0:24.6 | Did you preach yesterday? |
| 0:27.1 | I did not preach this past Sunday. |
| 0:32.1 | No, I did not. |
| 0:33.4 | I preached to follow the Sunday before. |
| 0:36.6 | What do you talk about? |
| 0:38.2 | You know, Steve, one of the things I've been looking at is the people who went through |
| 0:41.7 | battles in the scripture. |
| 0:42.7 | And I actually talked about the disdable whom God used to challenge those who were |
| 0:51.8 | disabling society. |
| 0:54.0 | So Moses has this stutter, but yet he's called to take on Pharaoh. |
| 0:58.3 | And though it looks like he's weak, he wins because he stands in a greater power. |
| 1:02.3 | Same as with Paul, same as with many of the prophets, |
| 1:05.7 | same as with Harriet Tubman, same as with Frederick Douglass, same as with many. |
| 1:11.0 | So I've been wrestling with why moments of challenge and struggle require us not to back |
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