By Regina Nigro — 2010
Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior.
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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. . .
Why Rev. William Barber thinks we need a moral revolution.
If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world—and there clearly are—then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Science can, in principle, help us understand what we should do and should want — and, perforce, what other people should do and want in order to live the best lives possible.
To the extent that we can sort out what is good and true in ourselves, we live up to the moral impulses that we value.