‘Old lions’ take pride in their social activism
June 14th, 2009
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As they retired from South L.A. pulpits, civil rights-era ministers took with them a civic-minded Christianity that is neither the ‘prosperity gospel’ nor the soul-saving ministry of televangelists.
As they retired from South Los Angeles pulpits, civil rights-era ministers known as the “old lions” took with them a kind of social justice-oriented “Bible in one hand, newspaper in the other” Christianity that has been quietly fading in African American churches.