William J. Barber
Author
Language
English
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"'I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided.' Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, 'Amazing grace, how sweet the sound' also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity,...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co. Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The text of a sermon given by Dr. William J. Barber II, on June 3, 2018, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., asking people to come together to renounce the politics of rejection, division, and greed.
It's time. In a single rousing sermon, Reverend William J. Barber II of the Poor People's Campaign makes an impassioned argument whose message could not be any clearer. It's time for change, and the time needs you. -- adapted from back cover...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2013, Moral Mondays gained national attention as tens of thousands of citizens protested the extreme makeover of North Carolina's state government and over a thousand people were arrested in the largest mass civil disobedience movement since the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. Every Monday for 13 weeks, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber led a revival meeting on the state house lawn that brought together educators and the unemployed, civil...
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism is for those who want to understand the underlying connections among today's social justice movements. Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies, it reveals what is driving many of today's most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income, wealth, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy;...
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Centered on sermons and lectures by the Rev. Dr. William Barber, leader of the Moral Monday, Forward Together Movement in North Carolina, this book advocates a broad-based moral movement for economic and social justice, rooted in the fundamental American values of freedom, justice, and equality for all"--
