Im excited to talk about this because this book talks quite a bit about second chances. And i notice that governor sanford, Congressman Sanford is a great admirer of the Author Robert Frost whose classic one of his classic lines of course was two roads diverged in a wood and i took the one less traveled by. That is has made all the difference. Thats what this book seems to be about your personal journey, your eyes and your lows and ive always been so impressed by your ability to discuss your lows and you can often do that with a certain self deprecating humor. You understand the seriousness of the issues of course you also are able to not think too highly of yourself. You can acknowledge your shortcomings in a way that speaks to a humility that many of us would admire. So with that, i felt id start off with just asking you mark , your thoughts. Whatmotivated you to write this book. I think the same thing that motivated you to speak out so consistently. Just a frustration with what has
Of Sadness And Outrage at read the right wing evangelical christians are doing to this nation and they way our distorting and representing the faith to so many, to the detriment of so many in society. Some of their dialogue particularly the support of a form of a president who is caused so much division in the society. I want to share the little bit give you a sense the depths of my outrage. To embrace the community affirming the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. So much in fact they organized into the to cry of the economic exploitation. The evangelicals of the past can todays forward lesion of Division And Exclusion raging christian Faction Opening supporting policies the art essentially a pathetic cult of jesus christ. And believe answers altered by the evangelical book says to live by bread the answer, they have succumbed to it john in the new testament calls the spirit of the antichrist. Now, when i speak of it im not talking about a supernatural being like the beast
Distorting and representing the faith to so many, to the detriment of so many in society. Some of their dialogue particularly the support of a form of a president who is caused so much division in the society. I want to share the little bit give you a sense the depths of my outrage. To embrace the community affirming the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. So much in fact they organized into the to cry of the economic exploitation. The evangelicals of the past can todays forward lesion of Division And Exclusion raging christian Faction Opening supporting policies the art essentially a pathetic cult of jesus christ. And believe answers altered by the evangelical book says to live by bread the answer, they have succumbed to it john in the new testament calls the spirit of the antichrist. Now, when i speak of it im not talking about a supernatural being like the beast in the book of revelation which, by the way it never mentions an antichrist. Or a lawlessness in second thessal
The christianity, not say i wrote the book out of a sense of Sadness And Outrage at read the right wing evangelical christians are doing to this nation and they way our distorting and representing the faith to so many, to the detriment of so many in society. Some of their dialogue particularly the support of a form of a president who is caused so much division in the society. I want to share the little bit give you a sense the depths of my outrage. To embrace the community affirming the commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. So much in fact they organized into the to cry of the economic exploitation. The evangelicals of the past can todays forward lesion of Division And Exclusion raging christian Faction Opening supporting policies the art essentially a pathetic cult of jesus christ. And believe answers altered by the evangelical book says to live by bread the answer, they have succumbed to it john in the new testament calls the spirit of the antichrist. Now, when i speak of it
Where you were actually dealing with the kind of tension between class and race. And you told your story. And i thought it really important to kind of begin with your journey to this work. Help a little bit about, talk about you. And the way in which your upbringing shapes how you approach education. Sure. Ill talk about the aspects of my Life And Upbringing that ithink is so relevant to the work that i do today. The two pieces and one im not sure i write about in the book and that is that my mother died when i was 11 years old. She died of leukemia. This was the late 50s, early 60s. At that time didnt talk about those things. It probably seems shocking to People Today but cancer was a shameful thing and we were told not to speak about it and when she died we were told not to talk about it. Afterwards either. So it was a traumatic experience for me but i dont think it had to be that traumatic if we hadbeen able to talk about. I was 11 years old. So from an early age i couldnt articulat