Justin Cox is an ordained minister, late-night baker, and storyteller. His writings have appeared in Mockingbird Magazine, Huff Post, and the Baptist Peacemaker. He’s a regular contributor at Good Faith Media, Salvation South, Baptist News Global, and The Christian Citizen. A collection of his ghost stories were featured in the Winter edition of 96th of October. Justin and his family live in the South, where he talks excessively about a radically inclusive Jesus, the sacredness of Waffle House, Baptist iconoclast Will D. Campbell, and his patron sinner Anthony Bourdain. He rambles from time to time at Black Sheep Baptist.
Salvation South
Good Faith Media
Baptist News Global
Huff Post
Blacksheepbaptist.com
EXPERIENCES
Show Date
Sat 5 Sep 2026 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM
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| Title Short | Cornbread and Whiskey: The iconoclast Life of Will D. Campbell |
| Venue | Front Porch |
| Experience Description | This workshop explores the life and witness of Will D. Campbell (1924-2013) — a Mississippi-born preacher, civil rights activist, and writer whose theology of radical grace transcended religious and cultural boundaries. During our time, we'll explore Campbell’s rural Baptist roots, experience at Yale Divinity School and Old Miss, Civil Rights Movement involvement that included working with the National Council of Churches, and his presence at the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. All of this led Campbell to step away from what he referred to as \steeple church\ and become a \bootleg preacher\ to the masses.
We'll take time to discuss Campbell’s provocative conviction that God’s grace extends even to those societies would exclude. We’ll explore his controversial ministry among both civil rights leaders and members of the Ku Klux Klan, and consider what it means when he said, \We're all bastards, but God loves us anyway.\
My hope is that this time will be a space of honest dialogue about reconciliation, shared humanity, and the courage required for bridge-building across deep difference. |
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