Conversations on Hope, Episode 8: David Bailey

How does Christian hope inform our creative work for reconciliation and justice? In this episode, I chat with David Bailey, the Founder and Executive Director of Arrabon, an organization that builds reconciling communities in the midst of a digital, diverse and divided world. David describes his work as helping people who understand that there is a problem with racial justice in America figure out what to do about it. We talked about how we reduce the problem to fit a small theology, how innovation for the Christian is about living from the future rather than imitating the world, and how we can be angry without becoming bitter. In a key part of the interview, David outlined the key components of becoming a reconciling community and not simply a diverse community.