#10: Nick Pickrell: Sharing Power

"In today's episode, Nick Warnes has a dialogue with Nick Pickrell. Nick Pickrell is an activist, pastor and performer in Kansas City. He is the founder and organizer of The Open Table in Kansas City, MO that seeks to be a place of peace and reconciliation in a city divided. He is an administrator and trainer for The Open Table Antiracism Trainings, and board member of Cherith Brook Catholic Worker. He has over 10 years experience doing anti-poverty, anti-racism, and nonviolent communication work, and is active in a number of local peace and justice groups.

To find out more about Nick Pickrell you can visit theopentablekc.com, FB: @nickpick00, and on IG: @nickpickdoesnthaveasmartphone. Here are some quotes from today's interview:

• ""I decided to do the thing that made me uncomfortable--and because I didn't want to be bored!""
• ""We want to make sure we're upholding values that aren't going along with something we don't want to become.""
• ""We can't be a church that is about reconciliation if we don't address America's original sin of racism.""
• ""The whole process of planting a church...is an exercise in waking up to all my own insecurities.""
• ""I've learned how to gather people around in order to share power.""
• ""Understand how power works within your organization. Then figure out ways to share that power. Otherwise I fear we will be creating oppressive churches.""

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