Episode 24: Shawn Anglim

April 17, 2016

Shawn Anglim is pastor of First Grace UMC in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, Shawn was assigned to two UM churches a mile apart--one black and one white, and both devastated by the storm. Working with their leaders, Shawn merged the two congregations into one.

In this episode, Matt talks to Shawn about this merger, preaching in a racially diverse congregation, and how the needs of a church's immediate context should inform its mission.

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Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

by Wendell Berry