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Reparations NOW: Ecclesiastical Reparations with Rev. Duke Kwon

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Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rev. Duke Kwon joins Christina and Ekemini at the table to discuss ecclesiastical reparations. Duke Kwon is the Lead Pastor of Grace Meridian Hill, a congregation in the GraceDC Network located in Washington, DC. He spent his early years in Southern California, then journeyed to the East Coast for his undergraduate studies at Brown University (A.B.). After working as an analyst at a management consulting firm, Duke began his formal training for pastoral ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div., Th.M.). During his time in New England, he also served on the campus ministry staffs of Grace Covenant Campus Church (KAPC) and Reformed University Fellowship Brown/RISD, where he also met his wife Paula. Duke moved to Washington, DC in 2004 to serve as the Assistant Pastor of GraceDC’s “anchor” congregation, Grace Downtown, then in 2011 planted its second congregation, Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood church located in one of the most ethnically and economically diverse parts of the nation’s capital. Duke and Paula live in Columbia Heights together with their three children. Pull up a chair, grab your teacup and have a seat with us! Hosts: Michelle Higgins (twitter.com/AfroRising) Christina Edmondson (twitter.com/DrCEdmondson) Ekemini Uwan (twitter.com/sista_theology) Producer: Joshua Heath (twitter.com/J_DotMusic4) Executive Producer: Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Special Thanks To: The Witness: A Black Christian Collective - www.TheWitnessBCC.com (twitter.com/TheWitnessBCC) Podastery - www.podastery.com (twitter.com/Podastery) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0

And the Hey all, welcome to True's table, Midwives of Culture for Grace and Truth. I'm

0:23.2

a Kimmenny and I'm Christina. This table is built by black woman and four black

0:28.1

women so welcome to the table Christina. How you doing gah? I am doing

0:31.9

wonderfully, Mr Kimmini today. I'm doing great. How are you doing today?

0:37.1

Girl, you know what I'm good. You know it's winter. You know,

0:40.9

thank you for asking. Where is the sun?

0:43.0

Okay, it's very important.

0:45.0

I'm low on my vitamin D, but that's okay.

0:48.0

That is okay.

0:49.0

I have the joy of the Lord and he will continue to sustain it.

0:52.0

You're so church. You're so church.

0:54.0

I'm so churchy.

0:56.0

It's so very churchy.

0:58.0

And so, well I'm excited because this is our last installment.

1:02.0

Well, I'm happy and I'm sad though because it's our last

1:06.5

episode of our Reparations now series and we've been having a very positive response I'm actually

1:12.1

pleasantly surprised.

1:13.0

Thanks, folks.

1:14.0

Thanks, y'all.

1:16.0

But we of course did not want to close out this series without anchoring the call for reparations,

1:25.0

that we want to center it on the church.

1:28.5

And we thought, man, who should we bring to the table

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