Acoustic blues singer-songwriter Eric Bibb performs the traditional African American spiritual “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me.”
A pained prayer for divine support, the song was popular during the civil rights era: Lord, stand with us in our struggle; empower us; be for us. We need to feel your nearness, so come, God.
Fifty years later, the church offers up the same plea—that Jesus’s presence would be real and palpable to a world that’s hurting.
The Jesus Question 