On the first episode of her new podcast You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Pastor William J. Barber II of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, spoke about justice and racism.
According to The Christian Post, Clinton contended that “Jesus and justice are the same thing” and that Christians must understand as to “how profoundly true that simple phrase really is.”
“You know, to say that Jesus and justice are the same thing seems to me to be so obvious,” Clinton asserted. “I mean, how can you be a Bible reading person, a church attending person, and not understand how profoundly true that simple phrase really is?” Clinton asked.
She then proceeded to ask Barber, a known social justice advocate, how he is “trying to open up people’s minds and hearts to understand what Christianity should mean and what should be expected of us who claim to be followers of Jesus.”
Barber reposnded assrting that there must first be an admission that there have been many things in Western and American culture’s that have negatively impacted theology. Barber cited, the “genocide of First Nations people and the enslavement of African Americans,” and seeing women oppressed and excluded as events that negatively impacted theology.
Barber then recalled what one of his professors told him as to what it means to be…
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