Raphael Warnock
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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and see a glimpse of your own children's eyes.
And so for me, this moment, the American nation, this idea of a government of, by, and for the people is a distinctive turning point in human history.
It's a grand experiment.
America is a grand cathedral of democracy.
Cathedrals take a long time to build, decades.
And so as we approach the 250th anniversary of our country, I've written this book, The Crooked Places Made Straight, to try to encourage us to keep building this unfinished cathedral of democracy.
Well, I believe that the acid test of one's faith is the depth of your commitment to those on the margins.
And part of how you correct what you lay out as a challenge for people of faith, part of how you correct that is you stay in conversation with people on the margins.
Because privilege blinds you from things.
So even as we come to the book,
I think our reading of the book is much better when we're reading next to other folk who come from a different experience.
That is the power and the gift of the faith tradition that shaped me.
The black church, and when we say the black church, we've never meant anything racially exclusive about that.
But I'm talking about a distinctive experience of Christian faith.
My church emerged literally fighting for freedom.
It's a freedom church.
And so it gives you a certain perspective on things.
Christians are often on the wrong side.
American Christians, by and large, were on the wrong side of slavery.
They were on the wrong side of segregation.
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