ABOUT ME
Twenty years ago, I was an avowed atheist and drug addict who lived to get high. I took 27 hits of acid over the course of 3 weeks and tried to drown myself in the ocean. In the process, I met Jesus who completely turned my life around, and I have been sober for 20 years since without a single relapse (click here to watch my story on YouTube). I have an amazing wife and the four most beautiful children in the world, and I live every day to serve and help those in need.
Ten years ago, I held a tent revival in the historically-black Eastside neighborhood of downtown Charleston, SC. My simple goal was to preach the gospel and to see people come to Christ. I even had a baptismal set up (which the city fire department kindly filled for us)! What I didn’t know is that the Lord had much more in store for me. I ended up baptizing eight elementary-aged girls and started a Bible study in their project neighborhood. I thought that I was there to change them, but the Lord used them to change me. My eyes were opened to the systemic racism and oppression which had existed right underneath my nose that I had never been able to see before. It was like being born again…again.
Through that experience, I became an advocate for racial and economic justice, calling all God-fearing people in our nation 1) to repent of our historic and present sins of racism and 2) to partner with the black community for real change. I believe that our Lord Jesus is calling us to a place of true repentance from the heart so that we can turn from our wicked ways of systemic racism and allow Him to heal our land (2 Chronicles 7:14).
THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS (DOCUMENTARY)
Our new documentary, The Sins of our Fathers: Race, Religion and the Rise of Trump is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video (No ads) and Xumo Play (Free with ads). The official trailer is below and you can find out more on the website: sinsofourfathersfilm.com
MY BOOKS
MAKE AMERICA GREAT…AGAIN? When Donald Trump started the MAGA movement during his 2016 presidential campaign, it took the world by storm. But it also left many asking the question, what era of American greatness was he harking back to? Certainly not the periods of Native American displacement and genocide, the peculiar institution of American chattel slavery or the long dark night of Jim Crow segregation?
GREATNESS REVISITED is a gripping novel chronicling one man’s journey as he is brought face to face with the question of what it means to be great. Jim Hamilton is the governor of Georgia with a soaring ambition, but in order to move forward with his career, he must first confront the dark recesses of our nation’s past. Will Jim fulfill his dream of achieving greatness, or will he discover something even more valuable along the way?
FROM FOLLY is the amazing true story of a 21-year-old college student’s survival in the ocean following a failed suicide attempt. Matthew’s plan was to swim out as far as he could into the Atlantic Ocean so that even if he wanted to turn back at the last minute, it would be too late. Yet when the time came to drown himself, he recognized something that would change him forever. At the brink of death, he finally saw the value of life.
AMERICA STREET is the story of one man’s intersection with race in the Deep South and how it changed him forever. The masterful blend of personal memoir and black history makes this book difficult to put down and even harder to forget once you do.