#191: When the Pulpit Meets the Soil: The Church as a Food Hub

In this episode Melissa L. Jones welcomes back Pastor Heber Brown III — founder of the Black Church Food Security Network — eleven years into a movement now spanning 300 congregations. He does not come to celebrate. He comes to tell the truth. They go deep on what it really takes to activate a Black church around food sovereignty, why he refused to hand Black data to a PWI, and what we stand to lose if our generation does not step up before the elders who carry living memories of Black self sufficiency are gone. Pastor Brown also shares what he is building next — a refocused Black church census with Morgan State University, Freedom School inside Sunday school and a succession plan rooted in abundance. He is not stepping back. He is planting seeds for what comes next.