She broke barriers as a priest. She spends retirement organizing against ‘Christofascism.’

She broke barriers as a priest. She spends retirement organizing against ‘Christofascism.’

This piece was copublished with Sojourners, an independent, award-winning magazine of faith, culture, and politics. On “Moral Mondays,” a group of locals — sometimes 10, sometimes 100 — gather on the town square in Brevard, North Carolina, holding signs advocating for voting rights, economic justice and more. Carter Heyward, an Episcopal priest and vice president of the Transylvania NAACP, which organizes the events, will “often come in her coll…