Spirit Spotlight - Benjamin Perkins and Wholesome Wave make nutrition accessible for all.

“In his role as a community minister at Hope Central Church, a progressive congregation in Boston’s culturally diverse and LGBTQ friendly Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Benjamin Perkins marries his faith to his longstanding commitment to social justice. But he’s no abstract theologian—rather, “I consider my spirituality to be very this worldly,” Perkins says. “I’m not worried about the afterlife. I want to do everything I can in this life to make heaven on Earth.”

That’s why, in his professional capacity, Perkins ministers to others in a very material way: He’s the newly named CEO of Wholesome Wave, a Connecticut-based national nonprofit that gets nutritious food to those in need. It’s the culmination of a career in public health, one that is rooted in HIV/AIDS work but blossomed over the years to encompass any opportunity to heal vulnerable communities by addressing, at the policy level, the systemic disparities that disadvantage them.”

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