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."
