Join Nate Parker, beloved actor and director of The Birth of a Nation fame, as he gets real with All That to Say about navigating his faith in Hollywood, the art of breaking down walls, and his record-breaking film The Birth of a Nation. 

He recounts his origin story in a Norfolk, Virginia, housing project, his “escape” to college, and his awakening to the experience of being a Black man in America. He recalls how a phone conversation with his mother shifted the course of his life from pursuing a degree in computer science to moving to Los Angeles on a dream and a literal prayer: Los Angeles, where he found his way to Bishop Dixon’s Center of Hope, where he filmed his first national TV commercial, and where he got his breakout role with Denzel Washington and Forrest Whitaker on The Great Debaters. 

Nate also talks in-depth about the birth of The Birth of a Nation—the film he wrote, directed, and starred in, which recounts the real-life story of the enslaved African American preacher who organized and led the Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831. Hear why studying for that role was the closest to God he’s ever felt in his life and why he calls the film “the hallmark of [his] existence.” 

Nate Parker is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Parker’s directorial debut feature film The Birth of a Nation made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for a record-breaking price tag. In 2016 he also founded the Nate Parker Foundation and The Nate Parker School of Film and Drama at Wiley College, both dedicated to empowering young Black filmmakers to develop and produce meaningful stories that shape culture.

In this timely, in-depth conversation, National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) president Walter Kim reflects on the history of the organization he’s been leading since 2020. Kim is the first person of a minority community to hold this position.

He recounts his personal story of being “loved into his faith,” from being born the son of refugees, to hearing the gospel in a theater parking lot as a teenager, to the coupling of his faith and critical thought during his studies at Harvard.

And he explores the evolving definitions and connotations of the word “evangelical,” its journey through the “toxic politicization of faith,” and the cultural posture it must take in changing world – one that he says should be informed by all members of the faith. Hear him express hope and opportunity for revitalization, racial reconciliation, and public engagement of faith for this generation and beyond.

Walter Kim is the president of the National Association of Evangelicals. He previously served as a pastor for 15 years at Boston’s historic Park Street Church and four years at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has spent nearly three decades preaching, writing and engaging in collaborative leadership to connect the Bible to the significant intellectual, cultural and social issues of the day. He serves on the boards of Christianity Today and World Relief. Kim received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and his M.Div. from Regent College in Vancouver. He is a licensed minister in the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.

In this moving, long-form conversation, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ted Green recounts his journey from an early aspiration to be the next William Faulkner, to his 20-year career in sports journalism, to his natural evolution into storytelling through documentary films.

Green’s stated goal is to “celebrate the triumph of the human spirit” through his work, and his latest project, “The Best We’ve Got: The Carl Erskine Story,” certainly does that. Listen in as Green reflects on his subject, the “skinny kid from Anderson, Indiana” who became a baseball legend, pitched the first nationally televised no-hitter against Willie Mays and the Giants in 1956, and who Jackie Robinson was proud to call a teammate, an ally, and a true friend.

He also discusses Erskine’s influence on the acceptance of people with disabilities – his fourth child was born with Down syndrome – and on the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, to which he contributed his celebrity for bedrock fundraising.

You’ll also hear about his widely acclaimed documentary film “Eva: A-7063,” the true story of a Holocaust survivor’s extraordinary journey to forgive the Nazis who killed her family.

Ted Green has won 21 regional Emmy Awards. His documentaries have been screened in film festivals worldwide and at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and have been featured in The New York Times and Forbes.com. “Eva: A-7063” aired on 95 percent of U.S. PBS stations and in Germany. “Undefeated: The Roger Brown Story” aired on ESPN Classic for several years. Ted holds a BA in American History from Princeton University and a Masters from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.