Man In His Domain The Reverend William J. Barber Ii
Spring, 2019
From his pulpit in Goldsboro, North Carolina, this progressive preacher is mustering an army of love— comprising saints, sinners and everyone in betweenThe precise origin of Watch Night—a New Year’s Eve prayer service, common in Southern black churches, in which a congregation assembles to recall the moment the calendar flipped from 1862 to 1863 and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation became law—is murky, but the sentiment involved is consonant with the season: Let us gather to celebrate...
