By Maxine Phillips — 2015
Barber spreads a gospel of witness and resistance in the tradition of civil rights and anti-war leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Sloane Coffin. . .
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Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."
Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”
Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.