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Between the Pew
If you’re black in the Presbyterian Church in America there is a good chance you are one of the few if not the only, black person in your congregation. Has knowing that there are so few of us in the PCA ever made you wonder how black people got here in the first place? What makes black people enter a sacred space knowing we will be the minority? What makes us leave the comfort of our black church experience? What makes us stay in the PCA? Remember those times after church on some Sundays after most everyone had gone, sitting on a couple of pews turned around facing each other, laughing, sharing your testimony of triumph and struggle and talking to each other about life? Asking each other questions that you never get to ask and hearing each other’s stories? This podcast is a chance to get to do just that in the same way many of us grew up doing and maybe even still do. A chance to hear stories of how we came into the PCA, and maybe even hearing our own story in someone else’s. Join us each week as we get to know black people in the PCA all across the country and discover their origin story. Welcome to Between the Pew.
Between the Pew
BTP Interview with Alicia Akins, Author of Invitations to Abundance
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African American Ministries-PCA
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Season 2
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Episode 3
Jenell Chavis and Charles McKnight get to know Alicia Akins! Alicia is a published author, she works for the Fulbright program, and she is a student at Reformed Theological Seminary in D.C.
In this episode, Alicia talks about living in Asia, the persecuted church, what she, as a black woman, has learned from Asian Christians, her new book, and more!
Follow Alicia on Twitter: @FeetCryMercy
Blog: feetcrymercy.com
Invitations to Abundance is available wherever books are sold!