[Unedited] Vashti McKenzie with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2008

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In this unedited conversation Krista Tippett interviews Vashti McKenzie, first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for the produced show “Vashti McKenzie: African American. Woman. Leader.” The current U.S. presidential election has illustrated how gender, race, and religion can become lightning rods, and may be seen as potential stumbling blocks to leadership. Vashti McKenzie is a pioneering figure on all these fronts. When she became the first woman bishop of the oldest historic black church in America, she declared, “The stained glass ceiling has been pierced and broken.” We offer her story, her wisdom, and her good humor as an edifying lens on the American past, present, and future. http://onbeing.org/program/african-american-woman-leader/62

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0:00.0	This is Speaking of Fates Unheard Cut.
0:02.5	I'm Krista Tippett.
0:03.6	You are listening to my unedited conversation with Bishop
0:06.8	Vashtime-Akenzi of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
0:10.8	I spoke with her using a broadcast-quality telephone
0:13.7	connection on September 22, 2008.
0:17.0	I was in the studio of American Public Media in St. Paul,
0:20.1	Minnesota, and she was in a private recording studio
0:23.1	in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:24.8	This interview was included in our program,
0:27.2	African-American Woman Leader, and originally
0:30.7	broadcast in October 2008.
0:33.3	Download the MP3 of the Produced Show at speakingoffaith.org.
0:39.6	No, I got it that you'd get here today.
0:41.4	That's what I meant.
0:42.0	I'm sorry.
0:44.4	No, because I called you yesterday because I
0:46.2	knew that that concert was tonight just our wedding.
0:50.0	Oh, I saw that.
0:52.8	I'm not going to make it.
0:53.7	It's at the Guthrie, isn't it?
0:55.2	It's probably pretty expensive, too.
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