‘Like being Let Out of a Cage’: What the Pittston Strike Can Teach US About Faith, Building Community and Democracy

Sept. 16, 1989, was a hot late-summer day in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Rev. Jim Sessions couldn’t sleep. He had a lot to be nervous about. The next morning, Sessions would drive two hours into the coalfields of southwest Virginia to participate in an act of non-violent resistance weeks in the…