Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
An early fellow Sojourner, Perk Perkins, reminded me this week that not long after we started Sojourners as a new Christian magazine for justice and peace, I came running into our little office one day and exclaimed, "Dean Smith is a Sojourners subscriber!"
Here were young Christians in Washington, D.C., saying our faith called us to racial and economic justice, opposing the nuclear arms race, ending the death penalty, and supporting the equality of women. And the greatest college basketball coach in the country was reading Sojourners?!
Dean Smith died on Saturday. He was 83 years old.
Monday's front-page New York Times story -- not just in the Sports section -- was titled, "A Giant of College Basketball and a Champion of Equality."