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john a. powell: Opening to the Question of Belonging
By Krista Tippett — 2018
“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings.
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