In this episode, Word&Way Editor & President Brian Kaylor interviews Aidsand Wright-Riggins, former executive director of American Baptist Home Mission Societies, co-director of the New Baptist Covenant, and mayor of Collegeville, Penn. Wright-Riggins talks about religious liberty, racism, and ministry. This interview was recorded as he visited the Kansas City area to give the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty's Shurden Lectures on the campuses of William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Shawnee, Kan.

(This episode is sponsored in part by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.)