The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church and President of Repairers of the Breach. He has served as president of the North Carolina NAACP, the largest state conference in the South, since 2006 and sits on the National NAACP Board of Directors. A former Mel King Fellow at MIT, he is currently Visiting Professor of Public Theology and Activism at Union Theological Seminary and is a Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary. Rev. Barber is author of the best-selling The Third Reconstruction: How A Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear.
Contributions
- October 14, 2014: A Moral Monday Letter to Ferguson
- November 13, 2016: On CNN: Reconstructing America Again
- November 7, 2016: Exposing the Myth of Voter Fraud
- October 24, 2016: Rev. Barber Addresses “Voter Fraud” in TIME Magazine
- October 21, 2016: Saying No to Extremism in NC & America
- October 3, 2016: Reclaiming Religious Liberty
- September 26, 2016: While Candidates Debate, Impacted People Testify
- September 9, 2016: Hypocrisy in the Church House, Moral Witness at the State House
- August 31, 2016: Time to Go Down to the State House
- August 10, 2016: A Revival to Hope America
- July 25, 2016: What Trump Deserves From Evangelicals
- July 7, 2016: It’s Our Time to Stand & Fight
- April 18, 2016: Why I Got Arrested at the US Capitol
- September 1, 2014: Labor Day Lessons: What I've Learned From Workers About Hope For Our Times
- October 27, 2020: We Ring Our Bells for You, America
- November 29, 2014: America: Time To Address Racial Injustice is Now
- March 9, 2015: North Carolina is Our Selma
- March 31, 2015: A Holy Week Call to End Interposition of Loretta Lynch Nomination
- April 9, 2015: Remembering Gardner C Taylor: Evangelicals Need Social Conscience
- April 29, 2015: O Say, Can You See? A Way Forward After Baltimore
- July 10, 2015: A Moment for History: Why North Carolina is Our Selma
- August 19, 2015: Julian Bond: American Revolutionary
- September 8, 2015: What Beats A Trump Card? Moral Language for a Third Reconstruction
- September 24, 2015: Address to Moral Action on Climate Change
- October 30, 2015: Evangelicals Are Not for Trump or Carson, but for the Gospel
- November 23, 2015: Put the Refugee Jesus Back Into Christmas
- December 31, 2015: Grief at the Heart of a Moral Movement: A Personal Meditation for 2016
- February 18, 2016: A Moral Movement to Hold Candidates Accountable
- December 2, 2016: Going to Jail With Jesus & the #Fightfor15
- October 6, 2021: Bishop Barber’s Remarks to the Vatican Conference on Ending Poverty
- July 3, 2020: Join Us in Prophecy Against The Pandemics
- April 28, 2020: Crying In the Crisis
- April 21, 2020: The Moral (and Legal) Case for Emptying NC Prisons.
- April 5, 2024: The Symptoms of A Nation Approaching Spiritual Death
- September 29, 2019: We Are Not of Those Who Shrink Back
- August 10, 2019: Pastoral Letter on the El Paso Shootings
- July 30, 2019: Who Will America Be?
- July 24, 2018: We Challenge Trump’s Evangelical Defenders To Live TV Debate About Faith & Public Policy
- July 16, 2018: The War on Poverty Is Not Over
- June 23, 2018: A Call For Mass Noncooperation With the Racist Policies of “America First”
- January 29, 2018: The Unveiling of Christian Nationalism
- July 23, 2017: We Cannot Turn Back Now: Call to Action for Healthcare
- July 16, 2017: Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action
- May 5, 2017: A Prayer to ‘Save Us From the Unmerciful and Un-American Health Care Act’
- March 13, 2017: We Will Meet TrumpCare With #MoralResistance
- March 6, 2017: Bloody Sunday & the Lie of “Voter Fraud”
- February 22, 2017: Trump, Like George Wallace, Can’t Beat #MoralResistance
- February 10, 2017: Amidst Public Outrage, A Strategy for Moral Resistance
- January 19, 2017: Only By Prayer & Fasting: A Day of Self-Purification for #MoralResistance
- January 9, 2017: A Call to Moral Resistance: #StopSessions and Stand for Justice
- January 2, 2017: Our New Year’s Resolution: We Cannot Bow Down
- December 24, 2016: “A Christmas Carol” in Rural America
- December 19, 2016: Call to Action: We Cannot Stand Down!
- December 7, 2016: How To Repair the Breach in America
- November 23, 2016: False Religion and the Rise of Trump
- November 17, 2023: Evangelical Appeal to Moral Case for Cease-fire