Justin and Stephen talk with history prof. James Willetts about how Americans remember racial history and the creation of hero narratives. They also discuss graduation, role changes, distress in the Psalms, and the complex reality of responding to racialized tragedy. Resources from this episode: • Atlanta Mayor calls Arbery’s killing a lynching • Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen • Sundown Towns by James Loewen • America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis • God’s Politics by Jim Wallis

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In this follow-up to Episode 4, Dr. Karen Gustafson (Ph.D. in Psychology) shares more about the bio-psycho-spiritual-social approach as we consider mental health in the Coronavirus era.

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Anthony D. Bobo, Jr., co-author of Commissioned to Love joins Justin and Stephen. They discuss church ministry and mission in each of the commission circles - from close to home to global. They also discuss the possibilities for the church to unite around Jesus in a time of division. Justin and Stephen also discuss the possibilities for trajectory setting decisions to be made in this time of intense upheaval.

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Justin and Stephen discuss their favorite coffee experience, a theology of sports, and navigating different social truth universes. Then they are joined by Dr. Karen Gustafson, who introduces a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to mental wellness and applies it to the current circumstance of the coronavirus situation.

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