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Conversations with Campolo, is a new podcast featuring interviews with the next generation of faith- and thought-leaders reflecting on Tony’s witness and its relevance for the challenges facing the church and society today.
Today's Guest is Dr. Greg Thompson
Gregory Thompson is an artist, pastor, chef and historian who works at the intersection of moral imagination and social healing.
Focusing on matters of race, religion, public memory, and hospitality, Gregory currently serves as Co-Director of Voices Underground, a Creative Consulting firm specializing in helping communities honor their African American histories, as a writer of The Welcome Table, a column on Food, Culture, and Hospitality at Comment Magazine, and as Creative Director of Star & Lantern, a cocktail bar and restaurant honoring African American Food-ways and the history of the Underground Railroad in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
He is the author of several books including, Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair (with Reverend Duke Kwon) The Welcome Table: Breaking Bread, Healing Communities (Forthcoming, with pitmaster Russ Whitfield), and Blood from the Ground: Public Memory and Racial Repair.(Forthcoming.)
For more information about the National Underground railroad memorial or to support the project visit https://www.voicesunderground.com/
Books featured in this episode:
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair https://bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/9781587435980_reparations
This week's sermon excerpt from "The Great Things We Can Do" by the Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo.
Hosts: Jy'Aire Smith-Pennick and Mary Kulp
Interviewer: Hannah Gerber
Producer: John Doyle and Robert Gauthier
Editor: John Doyle
Board Op: Sean Carter
Crew: Olivia Mattioli, Christopher Leader and Za'niyah Wesley
The Campolo Center for Ministry prepares students in the Campolo Fellows Program for servant-leadership in the Church, Christian ministries, and the public sphere – for the glory of God and in honor of Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo, distinguished Eastern University Professor Emeritus of Sociology.
https://www.eastern.edu/campolocenter
