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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II gave a full-blown, Old Testament style call to national repentance using the prophet Amos as the sermon today at the National Cathedral, which I thought might be of interest to some of the people here. It's about 40 minutes long (or more--I didn't make it all the way to the end), but quite powerful:
[Edit: In case the timestamp isn't working, the service starts at 15:56 minutes and the sermon at 49:39 minutes.]
He is apparently one of the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, which appears to be a recent religious left social justice movement. I signed up to support them, and this was the message about the movement that they were asking to have spread:
Over the past several months, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has taken up Rev. Dr. Martin Luther's King's call for a "revolution of values" in this country. Led by Rev. Dr. William Barber, II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and state-based grassroots community members, clergy and people of conscience, the Campaign has brought thousands of people together to confront the realities of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and a rampant war economy and a distorted moral narrative that perpetuates these injustices.
There are 140 million people who are poor or struggling in this country and we are organizing from the ground up in dozens of states to fight poverty, not the poor. This isn't about just helping out people going through hard times; it is about turning this country around so we can all have what we need to live and thrive.
Learn more about the Campaign at poorpeoplescampaign.org. Read its Moral Agenda here https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/demands/. Check out where they've been and where they're going. And join me in this historic effort to revive the heart and soul of this nation.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II gave a full-blown, Old Testament style call to national repentance using the prophet Amos as the sermon today at the National Cathedral, which I thought might be of interest to some of the people here. It's about 40 minutes long (or more--I didn't make it all the way to the end), but quite powerful:
[Edit: In case the timestamp isn't working, the service starts at 15:56 minutes and the sermon at 49:39 minutes.]
He is apparently one of the leaders of the Poor People's Campaign, which appears to be a recent religious left social justice movement. I signed up to support them, and this was the message about the movement that they were asking to have spread:
Over the past several months, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has taken up Rev. Dr. Martin Luther's King's call for a "revolution of values" in this country. Led by Rev. Dr. William Barber, II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and state-based grassroots community members, clergy and people of conscience, the Campaign has brought thousands of people together to confront the realities of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and a rampant war economy and a distorted moral narrative that perpetuates these injustices.
There are 140 million people who are poor or struggling in this country and we are organizing from the ground up in dozens of states to fight poverty, not the poor. This isn't about just helping out people going through hard times; it is about turning this country around so we can all have what we need to live and thrive.
Learn more about the Campaign at poorpeoplescampaign.org. Read its Moral Agenda here https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/demands/. Check out where they've been and where they're going. And join me in this historic effort to revive the heart and soul of this nation.
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