14. Kim Jackson: "The work of the gospel is beyond the walls of the church..."

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US Senator and Episcopal priest Kim Jackson in conversation with Azariah France Williams and Winnie Varghese. "The work of the gospel is doing the work beyond the walls of the church... Jesus calls us to do this work of... preaching the word of liberation, or setting the captive free, of bringing good news to the poor... The only way to this was in the political square. I have taken this to heart carrying this into the Georgian legislation..." Kim is Senator for Georgia State Senate District 41, representing portions of Dekalb and Gwinnett counties. "You can carry a gun if you had a permit... a police officer, they are not going to question a white person who has a gun, they are just going to assume they have a permit. It's when a young black person has a gun that may well have been permitted properly that all hell breaks loose, and people feel threatened and kids get shot... This new law... black young men are going to continue to be targeted..." Kim, Azariah and Winnie on permit free gun laws, voting laws, the return of black American disenfranchisement, "holding your place in line" and finding hope. Kim works to bring the diverse voices of her district to the Capitol: immigrants, refugees, and people living on the margins. As the Vicar of the Church of the Common Ground, Kim co-creates Church with people who are experiencing homelessness in downtown Atlanta.