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Ken welcomes author, pastor, professor, and advocate Dr. Troy Jackson to talk about his new book Living Undivided: Loving Courageously for Racial Healing and Justice (To be released January 2024).  Along with Co-Author  Chuck Mingo, Dr. Jackson tells the story of an initiative designed to "bring people together to learn from each other with honesty, integrity, and vulnerability, moving them toward awareness, through agitation, and into action." Troy tells his personal story, raised in Anderson Indiana by a high school teacher/basketball coach. His teams were racially integrated. Troy formed deep friendships, but in college, he came to understand that as open as he thought he was, whiteness remained woven into his own worldview. Called to ministry, Troy earned an M. Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was introduced to theologian James Cone. It set the trajectory of his pastoral work, launched in urban Cincinnati, Ohio. Longing to learn more, he enrolled in a post-graduate program at the University of Kentucky. He took a deep dive into the historical papers of Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. His doctoral dissertation emerged out of that study. When he met Chuck Mingo, the two of them partnered in a project called Undivided - focussing on racial history, reconciliation, and the biblical mandate to build bridges - to pursue justice, repentance, and restoration. 

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Recorded on Sunday, July 16, 2023.

“Most people come to rough areas to ‘bring Jesus to the poor’ and then they are distressed to discover that he is already there and the poor already know him!”

Aaron is the most culturally aware and widely read person you’ll hear this year. He is smart and kind and writes beautiful books of his own. He is co-national director of 24-7 Prayer Canada and has been known to lead teenagers on peaceful protests against shopping malls.

We talk about prophetic actions, secret sins, addiction recovery and why he loves living in Canada’s poorest postal code.

More about 24-7 Canada can be found HERE. His book "Recovering" can be found HERE.

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The current U.S. presidential election has illustrated how gender, race, and religion can become lightning rods, and may be seen as potential stumbling blocks to leadership. Vashti McKenzie is a pioneering figure on all these fronts. When she became the first woman bishop of the oldest historic black church in America, she declared, “The stained glass ceiling has been pierced and broken.” We offer her story, her wisdom, and her good humor as an edifying lens on the American past, present, and future.

In this unedited conversation Krista Tippett interviews Vashti McKenzie, first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for the produced show “Vashti McKenzie: African American. Woman. Leader.” The current U.S. presidential election has illustrated how gender, race, and religion can become lightning rods, and may be seen as potential stumbling blocks to leadership. Vashti McKenzie is a pioneering figure on all these fronts. When she became the first woman bishop of the oldest historic black church in America, she declared, “The stained glass ceiling has been pierced and broken.” We offer her story, her wisdom, and her good humor as an edifying lens on the American past, present, and future. http://onbeing.org/program/african-american-woman-leader/62