What Hath Justice to Do with Righteousness?

CNLP 826 | How to Preach Through Controversial Topics: Charlie Dates on What White Preachers and Black Preachers Can Learn From Each Other and Preaching So a Dead Room Wakes Up

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 27 August 2026. The book comes up at 38 min 9 sec in.

Carey Nieuwhof asks Charlie Dates about his latest book, and Dates explains its central argument: justice is the outgrowth of righteousness, and American Christianity has produced a split—those who pray but don't protest and those who protest but don't pray. Dates also says the book uses Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr. as a juxtaposition, noting Graham's own written regret that he did not do more given his proximity to King.

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