Bryan Stevenson: Love Mercy

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Bryan Stevenson (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative) is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable among us. In this episode, Kate and Bryan discuss: The hope that motivates Bryan in this slow, sometimes frustrating work of justice What it means to be a ‘stonecatcher’ (and why it serves both the one being condemned and the one doing the condemning) The power of forgiveness, maybe especially toward those who don’t deserve it CW: discussion of slavery, lynching, and other racist violence, death row *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Subscribe to receive blessings in your inbox every week. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available in PAPERBACK. Order your copy, today. Looking for some short spiritual reflections and blessings? Check out GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. Introducing THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days (releasing February 14, 2023). Learn more, pre-order, and receive a free pennant, here. Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, oh my gosh, today it is such a special day. Brian Stevenson is stopping by our offices.
0:13.2	Can I just say that again? Brian Stevenson is coming to my office. I hear the everything happens
0:19.4	project and I cannot wait to talk to him. Brian is the founder and executive director of the Equal
0:27.1	Justice Initiative. It's a human rights organization committing to ending mass incarceration and
0:33.5	excessive punishment. He works with his incredible team to challenge racial and economic
0:39.5	injustice and to protect the most basic rights for the most vulnerable among us. Brian is just
0:47.8	an unbelievable person and he has an incredible staff. They have won reversals, relief, or release
0:55.1	from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row. And he is the author of the
1:04.1	New York Times bestselling book Just Mercy. You have to read it. It is so stunning. If you're also
1:10.7	just the movie type, it was also adapted into a poignant movie starring Michael B. Jordan.
1:16.3	Brian deserves every lovely award that he's gotten, which is just about every award and honor and
1:21.3	honorary degree for his work. And you will absolutely understand why. Okay. Can't wait to talk to him.
1:27.8	Here goes. Well, I'm here with Brian Stevenson. He's the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.
1:35.6	And I always want to say ministries. It feels like a ministry. Both lawyer, plausibly living saint.
1:42.3	And I feel so lucky that we're doing this today. Thank you so much for doing this. Well, thank you.
1:48.3	I'm thrilled to be here. Sometimes when I hear about people's account of vocation,
1:56.0	they find their life's work maybe because of supernatural gifting. They just happen to be
2:03.6	excellent at something and then it pulls them in. Or maybe there's a moment of undoing and then
2:09.3	something crystallizes. And it seems like you were called into this vocation almost by a song.
2:16.4	No, I think that's right. I mean, I grew up in a community where most of the adults hadn't
2:24.7	gone to high school, let alone gone to college. And it was this powerful intervention by lawyers
2:31.3	into our community that made that community open up to public schools to black kids because when
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