The Old Bishop's Palace Museum. Transposed to our time, the breach is when we say one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all with our lips while we see the rich and the poor living in two very different Americas. He puts the first Black people in the cabinet. Inexpensive, too! How Rev. Our text this morning comes from the prophet Isaiah, chapter 58. William Barber II speaks at a Poor People's Campaign event near the Statehouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 28, 2022. William J. Barber II's Sermon at the Inaugural Prayer Service. ZWI5OTI0MWM4N2JlOTYyOGZkNmViYjlkZjcyNDg2YWIxNGQ5M2Y2YmUzZTdm But what may be most notable about Barbers new brand of civil rights activism is how hes taken a partisan fight and presented it as an issue that transcends party or racecreating a more sustained pushback against Republican overreach than anywhere else in the country. NEW TIME, LOCATION: Bishop Barber to give virtual remarks as part of The logic doesnt compute.. Youll be known as those who can fix anything, The text this morning is from the prophet Isaiah. BISHOP WILLIAM BARBER II: Well, Amy, let me take a moment. And what a day it will be when our childrens children call us what you have called us to be: repairers of the breach. Biden's Inauguration Should Give Us New Hope, How Black Filmmakers Are Reclaiming Their History Onscreen. But to Barber, the movements success is not tied to the ballot box. His work as an activist takes him to the state capital often enough that hes well known there. OTdkYjk4ZDA5Nzk0MTNmOTNhMWQ2NTM0NTBlMmM3ZTQyOGM1NWMxZTcyNjc1 Barber will brief his religious colleagues about "economic conditions in the U.S." and the Poor People's Campaign's goals and platform, which has attracted wide U.S. ecumenical support. Grant us wisdom and courage for the facing of this hour until, together, we make sure there is racial justice and economic justice and living-wage justice and health care justice and ecological justice and disability justice and justice for homeless and justice for the poor and low-wealth and working poor and immigrant justiceuntil we study war no more and peace and justice are the way we live. They cant debate us publicly because theres no way they can say, Were against guaranteed health care for all because Jesus was against guaranteed health care for all. Jesus never charged a leper a co-pay! Lets take it there. I need them to repent of what got them here and turn in a new direction.. The largest gathering, in February, drew tens of thousands of people. The prophets basic question to the leadership of his day was the question the economist Joseph Stiglitz has asked: not how much will it cost the government to address inequality, but how much has it cost us not to? What lesson should we have learned? It has always taken fusion movements to bring about real change. Yes, Reverend Barber, what does that mean practically? I talked with Vice President Biden during Eastertime. Exercise, faith, and "a little miracle and medicine" fueled his recoveryalong with a good health plan. Hes got work to do. Generated by Wordfence at Mon, 1 May 2023 18:15:49 GMT.Your computer's time: document.write(new Date().toUTCString());. There is hope in the mourning. The initiatives he has helped to start the Moral Mondays series of protests and the Martin Luther King Jr.-inspired Poor Peoples Campaign have motivated legions across the country to engage in demonstrations and peaceful civil disobedience in support of racial, economic and environmental justice as well as the protection of voting rights, among other issues as much moral as political. ODk2YjMyNjc0OWRlOTY1YjJkZGUxY2Q3ODlkMDQxMmRlYjljNjgxYTJmMzMy Copycat movements have started in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama in response to GOP legislation regarding Medicaid and gun control. Neither Barber nor his organizations endorse candidates, though they do endorse issues. ZTA4MmE5ZGI5MTE2MTU2Y2E5NjdlMDZiNGZiZWQxMTk2YzQ2ZTllMjYxMDE3 NGIwMGZiYzk1MGRmY2M2ZTNhMjQ3YTk1ZWI2ZmUxZTI2MTFmN2E0NmYzMjZm There were other words Luke could have used for poor, but he didnt he used ptochos. [2] Lisa Diedrichs blog roll thoughtfully catalogues the illness politics of the 2016 election and beyond. showMobileImage: true, INRAE center Lyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhne-Alpes Now I say, What does that mean practically? ); [3] Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor (1978), pp. If you think about it, white evangelicals say theyre against abortion, but they vote for candidates whove never undone Roe v. Wade. His newsmaking actions were founded on the idea that being a person of faith means fighting for justicewhether by working beside a conservative mayor to protest the closing of rural hospitals or by calling for an NAACP boycott of the state in response to the legislatures actions, like its infamous bathroom bill., In 2018, the 56-year-old ministera MacArthur genius grantee who founded the community-organizing group Repairers of the Breachput a new spin on that work. Madame Vice President, you have known the political and social breach caused by racism that tried to place a breach between the intelligence you had and the school you could attend. And we won a victory, at least for the day. It was also in 1968 that Barberwho was born just days after the 1963 March on Washingtonmoved with his family from Indiana to North Carolina. If we the people, with Gods help, repair the breach, revival and renewal will come. Bishop William J. Barber II is the president of Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, architect of Moral Mondays and founding director of the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. Rev. William Barber on Greed, Poverty and Evangelical Politics