Kinfolk

This week the tables turned as producer Erica Ngwolo served as this week's host and Kinfolk's host P.T. Ngwolo served as this week's guest.  This week we took some time to talk to P.T. about what calling means and why he wanted to focus on this topic for Season 2. P.T. is a pastor and church planter with a background in engineering and a law degree from the University of Texas. He pursued law school to further his dr...

Baron Elias is an author, preacher, and teacher. After giving his life to Christ, he noticed that there were few pastors or theologians that looked like him, dressed like him, or talked like him. He founded the ministry Block Huggers and has dedicated his life to ‘hugging’ the block by loving and living in his community as an urban evangelist. This work isn’t always glamorous and requires a long-term commitment. Join us as we talk ...

Shawn Thrasher is a realtor, church planter, and pastor of The Palm Church in Miami, Florida. Shawn attended seminary believing it would allow him to work cross-culturally in ministry. However, he was met head-on by the challenges with diversity that the church is still wrestling with today. In addition to church planting, Shawn is a father to five beautiful children and family is central to how he thinks about discipleship. Join u...

Today, on the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, PT shares a story that's never been told before. He offers thoughts on tangible, immediate changes that are needed around  public assistance programs and policing, including the George Floyd Policing Act. Sometimes it doesn't feel like a lot has changed in one year.  Yet even when things feel hopeless, the Gospel remains a joy-giving source of hope that one...

Mike Dixon is a worship leader, recording artist, and a Grammy-nominated songwriter. Mike comes from an athletic family and is 6 foot 5 inches. He seemed destined for sports, but after attending a music clinic at his local church, it was clear that music was his calling. Mike is passionate about leading worship, and he educates us on what it really means to lead in worship. His songwriting is vulnerable, which admittedly causes him...

Isaac Moore is a Houston native who’s gone from the bottom of Third Ward to the top of the fashion industry. As a fashion designer at Isaac and Moore, Isaac specializes in handbags, but if you ask him, he doesn’t create handbags, he creates experiences. Isaac was raised by the streets, but found his home in fashion when he started designing clothes like his own suit for prom. His story is filled with pain and struggle. However, he ...

Stephen G. Butler has served as a grant writer, community organizer, and is now an Assistant Dean at the Oklahoma City University School of Law. Most importantly, Stephen has been a great friend since our college days at Oklahoma State University.  Through his calling, Stephen has worked to create solutions to solve problems like access to healthcare, the subprime mortgage crisis, and has developed projects to address the challenge...

Temi Coker is a visual artist and photographer, who is originally from Lagos, Nigeria, but calls Texas home. Temi’s parents brought him to this country to be an engineer, but he felt a call from God to work in  music and art. It wasn’t an easy road, but he’s put in the work.  As founder and director of Coker Studio, Temi has birthed a new genre of art design. His client list includes the likes of Apple, AT&T, the NBA, and he de...

Ronnie "Reconcile" Lillard has been a college football player, he’s a rapper, youth advocate, court case manager, and father of five. He wears a lot of hats, but one thing is for sure, he’s always doing it for the community. After leading ministry in Houston, he returned home to his native state of Florida where he is now a director at the non-profit organization Youth For Christ, where he leads outreach programs for at-r...

We needed to talk to somebody who understood politics and understood the gospel and we called Thom! Thom Mozloom is the president and founder of the M Network, a branding and strategic communications firm based out of Miami, Florida. Thom has worked with leaders on both sides of the aisle, from Jeb Bush to Barack Obama. Thom takes us behind the scenes on how political messaging is tailored for various voter blocks-persons of color,...

In today’s episode we talk with attorney, entrepreneur, and activist, Meagan Harding, who is the co-founder of Rosa Rebellion, a platform for creative activism by and for women of color. As a civil rights attorney, Meagan has fought for wrongful conviction policy and has worked to shine a light on solitary confinement through the Texas Civil Rights Project. Meagan’s commitment to fighting for the black community is unshakable; howe...

On this episode we talk with Pastor Donald Bell, Sr.  the pastor of Covenant Blessing Fellowship in Los Angeles, California.  He has unique experiences through his work in clinical traumatology. Pastor Bell pulls from his own experiences being detained by police as a young man and his extensive experience as a trauma counselor to offer a unique perspective on licensing police. Pastor Bell gives keen insight on the political and rel...

In today’s episode we talk with Dr. Michael Emerson, Department Head and Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.  He is the author of the classic: "Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America." 

The killing of George Floyd hit home for Dr. Emerson, a native of Minneapolis. In this episode, Dr. Emerson talks to us about how his faith has shaped an incredible, lo...

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Erica Soltero Ngwolo, assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Her work focuses on developing health promotion programs that help minority youth overcome social determinants or root causes of health like lack of access to healthcare, safe places to be active, and healthy food resources, to prevent obesity and Type 2 diabetes. 

"Social determinants of health are...

In this episode, we sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery. Wesley is an Ohio native and talks to us about joining the trade of journalism in the 8th grade and the heroes that inspired him to blaze his trail in an evolving field with little representation.

He was a lead on the Washington Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as...