Finding the Courage for What's Redemptive

"How to embrace what's right and corrective, redemptive and restorative -- and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing weve done -- these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his life. He's brought the language of mercy and redemption into American culture in recent years, growing out of his work as a lawyer with the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama. Now the groundbreaking museum they created in Montgomery has dramatically expanded -- a new way of engaging the full and ongoing legacy of slavery in U.S. history. In this On Being interview, Krista Tippett draws out his spirit -- and his moral imagination."

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