Hear Aaron's Interview with John Seigenthaler
Click here to hear Aaron Johnson's interview with John Seigenthaler on Nashville Public Television's "A Word on Words." The program aired on Sunday, June 7, 2010. When you get to the , scroll down to the 06/07/2010 date and click the arrow.
See Aaron on "North Carolina People"
Click here to see an interview with Dr. Aaron Johnson with Dr. William Friday on UNC-TV's "North Carolina People." The program aired May 14 & 16, 2010.
Aaron Johnson is one of those rarest of people — a deeply spiritual man who feels like an instant, charming friend. In his powerful memoir, Man from Macedonia, Rev. Johnson shares stories from the bumpy road that God has led him along over the last seventy-plus years. His insights from the front lines of the civil rights and social justice struggles will startle and inspire all of us who seek to make some difference in the world.
While serving as pastor of a Baptist church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for decades, Rev. Johnson advised three North Carolina governors on race relations, established progressive policies as the state’s first African‐American secretary of corrections, and helped launch a massive prison evangelism effort across the country.
Whether being beaten and dragged from a dime store lunch counter, standing blindfolded before a Ku Klux Klan meeting, or praying knee-to-knee with a death-row inmate, Johnson shows us how hatred and fear smell, sound, and feel—and how it feels to empower others with hope and trust.
While serving as pastor of a Baptist church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for decades, Rev. Johnson advised three North Carolina governors on race relations, established progressive policies as the state’s first African‐American secretary of corrections, and helped launch a massive prison evangelism effort across the country.
Whether being beaten and dragged from a dime store lunch counter, standing blindfolded before a Ku Klux Klan meeting, or praying knee-to-knee with a death-row inmate, Johnson shows us how hatred and fear smell, sound, and feel—and how it feels to empower others with hope and trust.
