About this episode

The episode discusses the arrest of Reverend Dr. William Barber II during a public prayer rally addressing systemic injustice and budget cuts.

Show Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: Less than a week after President Trump formed a Justice department task force fighting Anti-Chrisitian Bias, Reverend Dr. William Barber II - a founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, National board member of the NAACP, and MacArthur Fellow - was arrested for leading a public prayer. The Rev. Dr. and two others were arrested for “crowding, obstructing, and incommoding.” The prayers started out quietly and as the ministers began to raise their voices they were told to leave or suffer arrest. Rev. Dr. Barber had been at the capitol all day, part of a rally held behind the Supreme Court. That rally, organized by Repairers of the Breach, a national team of organizers, religious leaders, artists, strategists and advocates centering and elevating leaders who have been directly impacted by systemic injustice. focused specifically on how budget cuts would impact women and children. The interdenominational speakers…

People in this episode

Hosts: Lemuel Gonzalez, Amity Armstrong

Topics covered

• public prayer
• systemic injustice
• budget cuts
• interdenominational rally
• Christianity
• social justice

Keywords

• prayer
• arrest
• Reverend Dr. William Barber II
• budget cuts
• systemic injustice
• rally
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, NAACP, Repairers of the Breach, National Urban League, Institute of Policy Studies

Places: Washington

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