Long’s case was not simply, as you suggest, a “wreck” or a car “accident,” but a case of DUI: Driving/Pastoring under the influence of unchecked power and accountability. This continues to be a historic problem with commercial celebrity preachers, and given your status and peer group, I’m sure you know this all too well.
Lerone Martin
Lerone A. Martin is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. His latest book is The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White
The contemporary idea that America was founded as—and was intended by God to be—a Christian nation.
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