Overview: Preaching with “the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other” has been a key component of the civil rights movement. In the era of Trump 2.0, men and women of the cloth have returned to the tactic to inspire and motivate.

(WIB) – It’s a tradition as old as the Black church itself: preachers using their influence, bolstered by scripture, to speak out against injustice, motivating their congregations into action. The dynamic powered seminal civil rights events like the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington.

It follows the instruction of Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth, who instructed pastors to “preach with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”

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