PSD 05 | David Wright, Executive Director of BMA TenPoint

Park Street Dialogues

English - March 16, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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David Wright is the Executive Director of BMA TenPoint, which is a merger of the Black Ministerial Alliance and the Boston Ten Point Coalition, as well as an adjunct Professor at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary's Boston Campus, Assistant to the Pastor at Peoples Baptist Church, and a board member of several other organizations in the city. In his conversation with Mark, David reflects on the importance of the church being integrated into the community, and he issues a strong challenge to follow Jesus’s example as we participate in God’s mission together. David and Mark also discuss racial justice and other challenges facing the church in Boston.

BMA TenPoint

Boston Globe article from 2014 on Busing in Boston, 40 years later

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J.Anthony Lukas (1985) – winner of Pulitzer Prize

Wikipedia article on 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo in New York City

Gordon Conwell Boston Campus (CUME)