The Reverend William Barber Talks to David Remnick About Morality and Politics
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🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Politics and religion go hand in hand for the Reverend William J. Barber II of the Greenleaf Christian Church. As he sees it, progressives made a mistake in walking away from Christianity during the rise of the Moral Majority. But conservative Christians who focus on banning abortion and limiting gay rights, Barber thinks, may be guilty of “heresy.” He talks with David Remnick about bringing morality back to contemporary politics.
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| 1:12.2 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden on On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with Reverend |
| 1:17.7 | William Barber. Barber is the founder of Repairors of the Breach, an organization dedicated |
| 1:23.1 | to bringing morality back to politics. |
| 1:28.4 | Now, a couple of weeks ago, I sat down for a conversation with a clergyman named William |
| 1:32.6 | Barber. |
| 1:33.8 | Reverend Barber is pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. |
| 1:38.9 | And until recently, he was president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. |
| 1:44.0 | Four years ago, Reverend Barber led more than a thousand demonstrators who were arrested |
| 1:48.8 | for refusing to leave the state legislative building in Raleigh. |
| 1:53.1 | Because we have no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests |
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