Tag Archives: William Barber

Donald Trump calls on televangelist Paula White to help him shore up his support among America’s most gullible as he approaches impeachment

By Mark | November 2, 2019

“Mark my words,” I said back in July of 2017. “The closer Trump comes to impeachment, the more he’ll talk about God.” Well, guess what? Yesterday, less than 24 hours after the House voted 232 to 196 to pass a resolution setting the ground rules for his impeachment, Donald Trump, with the help of televangelist […]

Posted in Politics, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Christian narcissism, Christianity, City of Destiny, communities of faith, Donald Trump, evangelical, Faith and Opportunity Initiative, faith based initiative, family values, first fruit, fundamentalist religion, germaphobe, impeachment, laying on of hands, low information voters, movements co-opted by hucksters, Paula White, poverty, praying, prosperity gospel, religion, religious liberty, televangelist, Trump Church | 102 Comments

Dear Mr. Trump: Will You Advance a Moral Agenda?

By Mark | December 30, 2016

Tomorrow night, as people around the world gather to celebrate the coming of 2017, Reverend Dr. William Barber II, along with several other leaders of the American faith community, will be congregating at the historic Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, DC for what they’re calling a National Watch Night service. The purpose of the gathering, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Education, God, Higher Ground Moral Declaration, human rights, Jeff Sessions, morality, morals, National Watch Night, poverty, prison reform, public education, race, race and poverty, religion, sentencing reform, Steve Bannon, voting rights | 246 Comments

The North Carolina Coup: This is what happens when voter suppression stops working

By Mark | December 16, 2016

I don’t know how well it’s being covered by the television news, but, at this very moment, there’s a coup underway in North Carolina, as the Republican legislature, which was ostensibly called back to the capitol for a special legislative session to deal with the aftermath of hurricane Matthew, started passing bill after bill intended […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged asshole Republicans, coup, demographics, Donald Trump, gerrymandering, Moral Monday, North Carolina, racism, reconstruction, redistricting, Republican strategy, Roy Cooper, standing up to the Republicans, Supreme Court, tea party, the south, threats to Democracy, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act | 15 Comments

In spite of it all, there really is a lot to be thankful for

By Mark | November 27, 2014

The world we live in is harsh and ugly at times. And it’s easy to give in to despair. This, sadly, is doubly true for those of us, like me, who expend a good deal of their time and energy trying to avoid the grasp of depression, even in the best of times. It’s hard […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Mark's Life, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-science, class warfare, corporatocracy, depression, Emergency Manager, gerrymandering, Harry Bennet, public education, religious extremism, snake line, surveillance, Thanksgiving, the militarization of the police, Tom Monaghan | 25 Comments

Reverend Dr. William Barber II on reclaiming the moral high ground and building a majority coalition around issues of social justice

By Mark | September 2, 2014

Reverend Dr. William Barber II, the North Carolina minister who founded the Forward Together moral movement, is in the press today. It would seem that a young man in his group was arrested yesterday in Charlotte, at one of Barber’s Moral Monday events, for putting voter registration information on the windshields of parked cars. As […]