Bishop Barber speaks at Christian student conference at Princeton
Contact: Yolanda Barksdale | ybarksdale@breachrepairers.org
Bishop Barber delivers keynote address Saturday for Christian student conference at Princeton University
Moral and faith leader Bishop William J. Barber II will deliver the keynote address Saturday at a Christian student conference focused on the theme of how to create a new heaven and a new earth in such a challenging time across the world.
Bishop Barber, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, will speak at the New Heaven and New Earth National Student Conference sponsored by the World Student Conference Fellowship-US that will be held Saturday, Sept. 16, at Princeton University. Bishop Barber’s keynote address titled “A New Heaven, A New Earth: Beyond Poverty” begins at 3:45 p.m. ET at the university chapel.
The World Student Christian Federation-US is part of a global network of over 100 student movements around the world that’s organizing a movement of Christian students in the US.
The conference theme, "A New Heaven and New Earth," comes from Revelation 21:1, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.”
Bishop Barber founded Repairers of the Breach in 2015 as a way to organize, train and work with a diverse school of prophets from every U.S. state and Washington, D.C. The organization, based in Goldsboro, North Carolina, works nationally to advance a moral agenda that uplifts our deepest constitutional and moral values of love, justice, and mercy.
ROTB is one of two co-anchors – along with the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice led by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis – of the PPC:NCMR, which advocates for the 140 million poor and low-income people in the country. The nonpartisan, but highly political PPC:NCMR focuses on the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy/militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.