DESCRIPTION: John Blevins, Director of the Interfaith Health Program, interviews the Reverend Kim Jackson. Reverend Jackson is the Rector at Church of the Common Ground, a spiritual community in downtown Atlanta that serves people who are experiencing homelessness. In the interview, John and Kim discuss the challenges that people who are homeless face in light of COVID-19 and the challenges it presents to programs working to provide services. John and Kim explore a number of theological issues such as the ways in which structural sin has been revealed during the outbreak, the relationship between prayer and medical care, and the possibility of hope in the midst of the outbreak.
TOPICS: Inter-disciplinary Scholarship: Theological Reflection