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We need more Howard Thurman in our politics

The theologian and often-overlooked civil rights hero would have warned us against politics as a zero-sum game.

Howard Thurman was a theologian and mystic who taught at both Howard University and Boston University. (Photo courtesy of Emory University)

(RNS) — “Our system needs to be broken,” Ted Johnson told a Politico magazine reporter recently, explaining why he plans to vote for Donald Trump.

The 58-year-old Johnson and I grew up just a few years apart in Centralia, in south central Illinois. Named for the Illinois Central Railroad, which formed the town in 1853, Centralia is surrounded by rich farmland, but it was long known for its oil fields and coal mines. In 1947,...

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