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Last August, as Americans watched the fallout from a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., pastor James E. Ward Jr. found himself in a position to help. The victim, Jacob Blake, had been shot seven times in the back. Violence erupted in Kenosha. Ward, pastor and founder of INSIGHT Church in the north Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill., turned to prayer.\n\u201cI get this phone call on my cellphone from Julia Jackson,\u201d Ward tells The Daily Signal. \u201cJulia Jackson is one of our faithful intercessory-prayer team members in our church. Julia happens to be the mother of Jacob Blake Jr. \u2026 And we prayed that Jacob would live and not die. And we\u2019re thankful that he\u2019s alive today, and he\u2019s doing well.\u201d\nThe shooting left Blake paralyzed below the waist. Yet both Jackson, Blake\u2019s mother, and Ward, her pastor, decided \u201cto speak a different narrative. We weren\u2019t calling for a hatred. We weren\u2019t calling for destruction. We\u2019re calling for peace and speaking the love of God over the city. And it really went viral.\u201d\nWard rejects \u201cvictim mentality\u201d and ideologies like critical race theory. He purposefully took a different approach from Black Lives Matter and found himself working with President Donald Trump last year. Now, he\u2019s preaching this \u201cnew attitude\u201d in a book called \u201cZero Victim.\u201d\nWard visited The Daily Signal to discuss \u201cZero Victim: Overcoming Injustice With a New Attitude\u201d and his experience in Kenosha last year.\xa0\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.