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Thank you, Rev. Barber
"We shall be the moral defibrillators of our society"
Among many other great lines.
Wow
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Already liked his FB page and will look into him more when the convention is over. Amazing man 
... "I am a theologically conservative liberal evangelical biblicist."
"Rev. Dr. Barber graduated Cum Laude from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham, N.C., receiving a B.A. in Political Science. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Duke University, was a Benjamin Mays Fellow and a Dean scholar. Dr. Barber has a Doctoral degree from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, with a concentration in Public Policy and Pastoral Care and he has received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from N.C.C.U."
"Rev. Dr. Barber graduated Cum Laude from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham, N.C., receiving a B.A. in Political Science. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Duke University, was a Benjamin Mays Fellow and a Dean scholar. Dr. Barber has a Doctoral degree from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, with a concentration in Public Policy and Pastoral Care and he has received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from N.C.C.U."
This is the preacher who lead the beginning of the Moral Mondays activism. Dr. Barber's congregation is extremely fortunate. I believe the Republican Party would never have come to this point if the ministers of the evangelical and fundamentalist churches many attend weren't so often completely without education for the the role they assumed but instead received in depth education about moral and ethical issues and understood that it was their job to teach how to be a good person to those who come to them for spiritual leadership.
I've probably visited a dozen modest evengelical churches here in the south with friends, and none of the services I saw addressed this critical need.
Meet the Preacher Behind Moral Mondays
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/william-barber-moral-monday-north-carolina
but he was kind of what I remember military chaplains were supposed to be like, more non-denominational spiritual advisors.
Having said that, I loved his speech. He had all the enthusiasm of of an old time revivalist, but really presented an inclusive talk about loving and helping each other without any of the negativity that I hear too often from the more popular religious figures that you see on TV. Nice to see this. And yeah, that defibrillator line was a keeper. 
Rev Barber is a giant among men.....
