Jemar Tisby, author of the NYT bestseller The Color of Compromise, explains the complicity and compromise of American Christians; the narrative war that confederate monuments wage (and how they were erected much later than you might think); the ugly theological justifications of racism and the shameful history of Christian white supremacy; the fraught project of selectively naming heroes and villains and then memorializing them; and the practical problem of how to go forward rightly from this moment of increased attention to racial injustice.

Get Jemar Tisby's book! The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Show Notes

• "the North won the Civil War, but the south won the narrative war." - Bryan Stevenson
• The birth of Jim Crow in the Redemption Era – white people taking back the South
• Monuments as reassertion of white supremacy
• The theological significance of the 'Redemption Era'
• Separation of Church and State as a disguise for racism
• The Bible as justification text
• Matthew 6:24 and“You can't serve God and money”
• Problematic historical heroes and the desire for heroes today
• Should we be putting slave holders on pedestals?
• Can we instead honor those who held America to its noble ideals?
• What kind of future can we hope for?
• What confession can look like in communities
• Theologically unpacking repair
• Creative repair
• 2020 and what happened with voting rights
• Christians and reluctance to vote
• What do we do now? Awareness, Relationships, Commitment
• Jesus Christ and relationality
• Relationships as necessary but not sufficient
• Commitment to stand up to racial inequalities

Production Notes

• This podcast featured author and historian Jemar Tisby
• Edited and Produced by Evan Rosa
• Hosted by Evan Rosa
• Editorial and Production Assistance by Annie Trowbridge
• A Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/about
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