A Resurrection

I drove five hundred miles to attend the national assembly of the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington DC. Tens of thousands gathered. Folks were there from all over the political spectrum—and many of us who feel like we do not fit anywhere on the spectrum. Right after the heat and humidity broke, Rev. William Barber scripted spiritual language to lament that both political parties shared in the failure to center 140 million poor and low-wealth people in the US. He said our gathering was not an insurrection, but a resurrection. “This is the day,” Barber prophesied, “that the stones that the builders rejected will become the cornerstone of a new reality.”