Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson challenged Baptists from around the world to be truth-tellers about racial injustices. He spoke to a special session of the Baptist World Alliance’s annual gathering on Thursday.
Bryan Stevenson talks about truth and reconciliation in America — and about whether truth would actually lead to reconciliation in America. And he discusses what the process of reckoning with our past sins and present wounds would look and feel and sound like. Read full piece
(RNS) — “Protecting our hope” means never losing hope that love is more powerful than hatred, life more powerful than death, mercy more powerful than condemnation. As Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson says, “We are all more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”