Join us for Bishop Wright’s latest podcast series: The Heart of Moral Leadership. Moral leadership is critical in turbulent political times because it provides a compass for guiding people through uncertainty, promoting justice, and fostering unity. In periods of division, leaders with strong ethical principles inspire trust, encourage empathy, and model behavior that prioritizes the common good over personal gain.
Jesus’ leadership, marked by compassion, forgiveness, and a radical commitment to loving one’s neighbor, offered a moral framework that transcended political and social boundaries. His teachings focused on humility, service, and advocating for the marginalized—values that resonate throughout history and remain relevant today.
“Moral leadership inspires us to become the best versions of ourselves. Moral leaders are able to do that because they possess integrity, courage, imagination, wisdom, empathy, motivation, wisdom, empathy a host of virtues that prompt them to serve the common good and to invite others to join the process of building a better community and just society.” The Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin
The Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin
Robert M. Franklin, Ph.D. is President Emeritus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he served as its 10th president from 2007 to 2012. Morehouse College is the only school in America committed to the development of African American men.
Franklin is the Senior Advisor to the President of Emory University and holds the James T. and Berta R. Laney Chair in Moral Leadership. Before joining Emory, Franklin was a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Institute and Director of the Interfaith Religion Department at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. An ordained minister, Franklin served as President of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta from 1997 to 2002.
A celebrated author, Franklin has published four books: Moral Leadership: Integrity, Courage, Imagination (2020); Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities (2007); Another Day’s Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis (1997); and Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African-American Thought (1990).