If you still had a chance to hear Martin Luther King Jr. preach, you’d take it, right? That’s why I spent an hour or two yesterday listening to the Rev. William J. Barber II, because he’s the closest thing we have. He preached to the congregation of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem yesterday for their annual King Sunday service. (His sermon begins at 1:09.) He is the inspiration I needed:
This was powerful. I have always liked the way bishop Barber can take any subject thrown at him and turn it into a policy discussion. I hope he gets his knee fixed.