But too often, she said, people use religion, including Christianity, for the wrong reasons.
That includes Scripture used by politicians to justify separating families at the border, said the 80-year-old Prejean. Or Jesus’ death being used by Christians to defend the death penalty.
“It took me a long time to not just live Christianity as practicing charity to those around me who were pretty much people just like me, to getting involved with justice, which is the true call of the gospel.”
That desire to get it right prompted Prejean — an anti-death penalty activist whose book “Dead Man Walking” was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning 1995 film by the same name — to write her latest memoir, “River of Fire.