On this week’s episode of “Purpose That Prevails with Dr. Otis Pickett,” Dr. Otis visits with two prominent educators and religious scholars whose work highlights and defines the intersections that connect race, history and the Christian Church. Dr. Peter Slade, a native of England and a college professor at Ashland University in Ohio, has been involved in racial healing in the US South for more than 30 years and his book, “Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship,” offers keen insight on one group’s quest for racial reconciliation in Mississippi. DeSean Dyson is currently a Professor at Mississippi College, and is also the Founder of The Redeemer’s School in Jackson, Mississippi committed to racial, ethnic and economic diversity. Among the topics of discussion in this episode include how the Christian church has both supported and denounced racism in its long history, efforts in Mississippi over the last 20 years to bring racial healing to the state’s most underserved communities, and how religious scholars like Peter and DeSean have challenged the Christian Church to think more honestly about its history of racial segregation and the power that racial healing.

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