Chris Lahr joins us again to discuss tribalism, licking tounges, and how love helps us see each other differently.

A Top Ten List of Books that go along with the podcasts tonight:

1) My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem

2) Mirror to the Church by Emmanual Katongole

3) Unclean by Richard Beck

4) No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice by Karen Cox

5) Reparations by Duke Kwan

6) Unsettling Truths: The ongoing, dehumanizing legacy of the doctrine of discovery

7) Caste: The origins of our discontent by Isabel Wilkerson

8) Sundown towns: A Hidden Dimension of American racism by James Loewen

9) Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way by Mungi Ngomane

10) Before the Dream: MLK's 1963 speech and civil rights struggles in Ft Wayne by Chris Elliott

In this episode, Josh, Angie, and Blake chop it up with our first guest Chris Lahr and talk about America's original sin of racism. Chris was born and raised in Indiana but spent twenty years living in inner-city Philadelphia before moving to Fort Wayne in 2019. Chris helped run a mentoring program called Timoteo (Spanish for Timothy) that used sports to mentor and disciple urban youth (www.timoteosports.org). Chris is passionate about seeing Jesus manifested to people at the street level and seeing youth step into leadership roles in their community. He is currently working on his Doctorate of Transformational Leadership with Bakke Graduate University. He has an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary and did his undergrad at Eastern University. Chris is the co-author of the book, Playing for the City, and has written several blogs for Red Letter Christian, Fig Tree Revolution, and the Spokane Favs websites. His blogs mainly deal with the issue of racism and what we can do to live a more just and equitable lifestyle. Chris' Blog (writings)

http://amazon.com/author/chrislahr (Amazon Author Page)

https://playingforthecity.wixsite.com/website (Chris' Book)

Angie shares her experiences... deconstructing her faith through serving people in the sex work community and discovering what following Jesus means to her.

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