Overview: Prodigal - Leaving Church and Finding God by author Don Jackson challenges traditional perspectives on spirituality and identity, exploring self-guided spirituality, the flaws within mainstream churches, and the essence of being a man of God in today’s society.

Through thought-provoking narratives, author Jackson reminds readers of our interconnectedness and urges them to embrace their inherent divinity.

Verdict: Meet Don Jackson, an entrepreneur, author, spiritualist, and motivational speaker based in Los Angeles, California. With over 35 years of success in the music and entertainment industry, Jackson’s journey is a testament to resilience and dedication.

Starting in music, Jackson quickly transitioned into concert promotion where he earned a reputation for attracting top talent, including MC Hammer, Boys II Men, Snoop Dogg, and New Kids on the Block.

In 2000, he founded J.E. Holdings Inc., a diverse entertainment and e-commerce enterprise encompassing record labels, concert promotion, event management, and ticket sales. Under J.E. Holdings Inc., Jackson’s private record label, JEA Records, released saxophonist Eldredge Jackson’s debut album, Listening Pleasure, in 2008, co-produced by NBA legend Wayman Tisdale.

Raised in the nation’s largest evangelical Black church, Jackson’s upbringing instilled a belief in boundaries and religious norms. However, a transformative near-death experience shattered these beliefs, leading Jackson to question mainstream religious institutions and the world’s inherent brokenness.

In what is a very short prose at just 57 pages, author Don Jackson still more than manages to tell his story, to get across his dutifully crafted points, but moreover his written word is one that should both enlighten and yet act as a harbinger for anyone simply gliding through life; unaware that all around them lay life’s trap doors.

As a member of the nation’s largest evangelical Black church in America, Don grew up believing in boundaries. In a God who cared whether he went to Sunday services, cursed too much, or danced too close to a girl at prom. But a near-death experience that transformed his life.

Don discovered that not only was his spirit correct in its disobedience all along but that the world is broken because it doesn’t know who it is.

Prodigal - Leaving Church and Finding God is a work of prescriptive nonfiction meant to expose audiences to new and, at times, controversial ideas on what it means to be a man of God, the good, terrible, and ugly of mainstream churches and church leaders, and self-guided spirituality.

Furthermore, it serves as a reminder to a world that has accepted entropy that we are not dying; rather, we are fragments of God. That we are not, in the end, distinct entities comprised of flesh and blood bound by a code written by a bearded old white man in the sky with a pain fetish. We are all part of the same spirit, mind, and existence.

The bigger message simply being that if we could return to it, we could learn to stop destroying one another. A message that I would like to think we could all get on board with.

About the Author - Don Jackson is an entrepreneur, author, spiritualist, and motivational speaker based in Los Angeles, California. With over 35 years of success in the music and entertainment industry, Jackson’s journey is a testament to resilience and dedication.

Raised in the nation’s largest evangelical Black church, Jackson’s upbringing instilled a belief in boundaries and religious norms. However, a transformative near-death experience shattered these beliefs, leading Jackson to question mainstream religious institutions and the world’s inherent brokenness.

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