Faithful Filibuster: Christian leaders read Scripture, exhort Congress to care
By Katherine Burgess (RNS) Under a cloudy and drizzly sky, across the street from the U.S. Capitol, David Beckmann read passages from the prophet Isaiah. “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God,” read Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and one of several Protestant and Catholic leaders who gathered Wednesday (Oct. 9) to launch “Faithful Filibuster.” The…