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What's up, friends? Welcome back to the New Evangelicals podcast. I am Tim Whitaker, the host of the show.

Today is a great conversation with Pastor Carl Day. Actually, a pastor in my local area, who I've met several times.

This conversation is going to blow your mind. He lays out the dichotomy between living in the hood of Philly

versus living in the gentrified areas of Philly and the difference that that creates and how

systemic poverty and racism really affects the mental health of his community and how that leads to negative

outcomes and how we can change that. So this is a great conversation. Pastor Carl, he is a man in

the trenches. This is his community. This is where he comes from. And so just listen to him to him

tell the stories. His story is so powerful. I think you're really going to enjoy it. As always, friends,

thanks so much for listening. Make sure to get this show a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts or on YouTube if you're watching

there. And I appreciate you being here. Talk to y'all later.

All right, Pastor Carl Day, it's good to see you again, my friend.

A lot of people don't know this story because why would they?

But you and I actually connected way long ago when I was in an evangelical church serving as a drummer

and working with like an organization doing a multi-church worship night.

And you came out to one of like our meetings. That was the first time we ever connected. And then I started TNE and then we reconnected. And now we're talking again on the podcast. So it's so good to see you, man. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think you're leaving something out too. I think I also came and I was a speaker at the camp.

I can't melody used to be a part of. Yeah, yeah, I came out to the camp. You had me come out speaking the camp. Yeah, yeah, it was cool experience too. I spoke to those campers, man. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yes, I forgot about that. That's right. That's right. Man, well, it's good to see you. You're actually right in my backyard. You work in Philly, and it's been great to be able to see what you do. Why don't you go ahead and introduce the folks to like who you are, what you do, and we'll go from there. All right. Pastor Carl Day, culture change of Christians.

Also,

creator in a lot of different ways.

Very creative in a lot of different ways.

Always keeping something going in Philadelphia and beyond in a public safety

anti-violence space started and founded a program called Beat the Block where we really helped helped serve 18 to 26-year-old young men in the urban inner-city community.

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