By Rivka Galchen — 2014
The rise of Misty Copeland.
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CLEAR ALL
First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today.
Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.
“Racism Is Satanism.” It was this conviction that launched Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a religious Jew from a Hasidic family in Poland, into the American civil rights movement.
Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.