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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Making the leap from basketball to being a man of God
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:10:31
	Publish Date:		2020-01-18 12:00:00
	Description:		Malik Shakoor is the first Muslim religious coordinator, or chaplin, for the Washington State Corrections Center in Shelton, Washington. He prefers to think about his position this way: a religios corrdinator who happens to be Muslim. When Shakoor was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, a pastor predicted that someday Shakoor would become a man of God. Back then, Shakoor loved basketball. He was talented, too. One day at church, the pastor laid hands on all of the children and announced what their futures would be. “There were maybe about 50 of us. One by one he put his hand on our head, and I’m thinking NBA, right?” Shakoor remembers, “He got to me and said, ‘Man of God.’ I said, ‘No, you’ve got that wrong, you know, basketball player,’ and he said, ‘Man of God.’” After that, everyone who was there that day, when they saw Shakoor they’d say, “There goes the preacher man, there goes the man of God!” But Shakoor still had his sights set on basketball. Shakoor was a point guard. Along
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