When You Receive the Language for What You’ve Lived

How the rich leadership theory in my next book helped me articulate the leadership lessons I learned from the Black Church

My grandmother Sapora Turner dressed for church in front of her home in Lewisville, Arkansas, and a three or four-year-old me dressed in my traveling pants, ready to hit the road back to Dallas with my family.

I use to spend some summers at my grandparent’s wood‑framed house in Lewisville, Arkansas—just a stone’s throw from Hope where former President Bi…