Baldwin referenced in relation to the ‘The Black Movement’ and the ‘reactionary’ nature of ‘the church’

‘The Bulletin of the Gay Christian Movement’, May 1978, Issue No. 9. ‘An Ascensiontide Sermon’ by Gilbert Hopley, p. 12. (on the database, pg. 709)

Hopley refers to JB in relation to the ‘The Black Movement’ and the ‘reactionary’ nature of ‘the church’ which is ‘speaking to fewer and fewer, while the vast procession of humanity struggles for freedom, nevertheless. Certainly the freedom movements of my adult life, which incidentally is a good deal shorter than some of you might suspect, have owed little to the initiations of the Church. The Black Movement probably owes most to jazz, James Baldwin and Malcolm X; the student movement to events in Paris just ten years ago; the Welsh movement more to extremist voices than to main-line religion. As for the whole sexual liberation thing, it cannot be said to have begun to impinge on a highly sexist Church’.