Pastor Joseph C. Parker Interviewed on Hill Country Institute Live

Hill Country Institute Live: Exploring Christ and Culture

We're delighted to have Pastor Parker with us once again. His father was a classmate and friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., then a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama, when the Montgomery Boycott occurred and then in Birmingham, Alabama, when Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote Letter from a Birmingham Jail. We’ll be discussing Pastor Parker’s memories of those times and the Christian faith which was the basis for the actions and courage of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement including Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, Ralph Abernathy, and others. Pastor Parker earned his doctorate in Urban Ministry at Gordon Cornwall Seminary. His studies focused on a complex systems approach to community ministry developed in partnership with MIT. We will be discussing our call in Genesis to create culture, and the impact on racial relations of fallen people creating and sustaining fallen systems. We’ll consider the question: What is the role of the church in showing the love of Jesus Christ to overcome barriers which divide?