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Saturday, July 18, 2020

"Where is the Sense of Decency? What Does It Profit a Great Nation to Conquer the World, Only to Lose Its Soul?" — The Legacy of John Lewis

This interview with Congressman John Lewis -- in front of a live audience in Kentucky in October 2013 -- was one of the most memorable and moving experiences of my professional life.

It feels just impossible to lose him at a time when we need him so much.https://t.co/QO2kEwLVvz
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 18, 2020

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Selected Publications

Religion and Public Life in the Southern Crossroads Region: The Showdown States. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira, 2004. Ed. by William D. Lindsey and Mark Silk.

Shailer Mathews’ Lives of Jesus: The Search for a Theological Foundation for the Social Gospel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Singing in a Strange Land: Praying and Acting with the Poor. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1991.

“On Being Church in the New Millennium: The Challenge and Gift of Gay Believers,” Theology and Sexuality 16 (2002), 96-104.

“AIDS, Homosexuality, and the Churches in America Today,” Bulletin for Contextual Theology in Southern Africa and Africa 7,1 (2000), 45-48.

“The AIDS Crisis and the Church: A Time to Heal.” In Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender, ed. Adrian Thatcher and Elizabeth Stuart. London: Eerdmans and Gracewing, 1996. Pp. 347-66.