lenny duncan (they/them) is a writer, speaker, scholar, and media producer working at the forefront of racial justice in America. lenny is the author of Dear Church, United States of Grace, and Dear Revolutionaries, and a co-creator of the podcast BlackBerryJams with PRX. A PhD student in historical and cultural studies of religion, lenny is currently researching what they call "a people's history of magic." lenny is originally from West Philadelphia, has hitchhiked thousands of miles on American byways, and makes their home up and down the I-5 with their found family, and in the East Bay area of San Francisco for research.
"You will be inspired by Duncan's strength but also jolted by their anger that the odds are so heavily stacked against all who are trapped by oppression and injustice. This is the work of a truly gifted writer." --Tom Gjelten, religion correspondent, NPR News "Lenny Duncan's prose has the momentum and pull of a powerful river... Simply put Lenny Duncan is telling the truth; we'd best take heed." --Marya Hornbacher, New York Times bestselling author of Madness "Fierce in both their criticism of America's institutions and their love for its people." --Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review of United States of Grace "Duncan speaks loudly and clearly, cutting through the cacophonous noise of cheap love and cheap grace." --The Christian Century
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