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David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Public Culture of Reinhold Niebuhr

Niebuhr was on the cover of Time Magazine. He could be white male Midwestern Protestant theologian who had such a privileged voice. Martin Luther King's religious writings and some of his sermons have partly because he was a student. We need to open our imaginations about what the NiebUhr of our day will look like, says John Sutter.

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