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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Is a co-founder of UNDIVIDED and the Chief Strategies Officer. Former senior pastor of University Christian Church in Cincinnati, he loves moving people into action to advance racial justice and has spent the last decade doing faith-based community organizing.
He has an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Kentucky. After raising three children, Troy and his wife Amanda moved to their dream home – a cabin in the woods outside Cincinnati, Ohio.
“An invitation to freedom rooted in love and justice. If you want to build a new future together with others in a world that desperately needs change, this book is for you!”
—Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, author of Becoming Brave and Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0
From the Book Cover –
As the church and as a country, we’ve often neglected and avoided addressing the impact and ongoing reality of racism. We’ve been more focused on order than justice, more concerned with social media posturing than solidarity, more committed to judgment than repentance. But God’s people are called to more. We need to lead the way to true racial healing, solidarity, and justice.
Through enlightening history and eye-opening personal stories, Living Undivided will equip and empower you with the biblical, transformative tools you need to move from just hoping and wishing for racial justice to actionable change that makes a difference in your life and the lives of churches, neighborhoods, and cities.
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