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Steve Macias & Andrea Schwartz

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How Can We Keep from Singing?

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Steve Macias & Andrea Schwartz

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Can Bad Philosophy Produce Good Science?

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Steve Macias & Andrea Schwartz

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How Much Effort Should We Put in to Learning Opposing Views?

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Steve Macias & Andrea Schwartz

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How Should Christians Defend Themselves?

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Russell Traweek

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In this episode, Russell Traweek addresses the Biblical Response to Tragic Circumstances as individuals before even attempt to address others as we look at Nehemiah 1.

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Steve Macias & Andrea Schwartz

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Should We Be Planning for Scarcity?

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Russell Traweek

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Russell Traweek addresses in this podcast as to why some presuppositions made by some trusted pastors and ministries, although true, don't matter when not properly applied. One can scream, "All Lives Matter" all day, but if you overlook the application when one life, or group is oppressed, then you have a dead faith.

How Should Christians Respond to Discussions of Racial Injustice?

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The Monstrous Crew

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In today's episode, we had the privilege of sitting down with Shatoyia Bradley, a business owner, fashion designer, writer, editor, wife, and mother for a frank discussion about racism, her experience as a black woman in the church and in America, and loving our neighbors in the context of systemic injustice. 

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Race and Black Theology Reading List: An Annotated Bibliography

 

Below is a list of books that I highly recommend. They aren’t listed in order of importance, however, “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie Glaude, would be a great start. 

The typical set of caveats apply to this bibliography, like many others in its category, of course. Black thought is not a monolith; like any tradition, it is less a sustained echoing chorus, and more a long argument over time. Its diversity, breadth, and sophistication cannot be captured in a brief introductory bibliography like this one.

The authors on this list have sustained disagreements with each other, and therefore it stands to reason that no reader will agree with the entirety of these texts. Yet we consider this list to be something of a bare minimum for serious discourse about the question of taking black experiences and contributions seriously in Christian theology and ethics.

While it is unlikely that any treatment of the experiences of blacks in America will engage all of these sources, it is virtually unimaginable that any responsible treatment of those questions can proceed with reference to none of them. The education of several lifetimes can be accessed simply by consulting the bibliographies of the sources contained herein.

The criteria for inclusion on this list are unsystematic and inexact, but we solicited suggestions from friends of Mere Orthodoxy for sources that are written by Christians, substantively address Christian involvement in black racial issues, or are of pressing significance that white Christians can overlook them only at great harm to the power of their own analysis and ignorance of the real issues. The commentary that follows each of these selections below is from these friends. We are grateful for and indebted to them for their suggestions. Omission of any important source from this list ought not necessarily be construed as a sleight against that source. We would be grateful for readers to suggest additional sources in the comments below.

The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology

An introductory handbook like this one is often an excellent place to start to understand the broad contours of a body of thought, and to find an accessible point for immersing oneself more fully in that tradition. The essays in this volume understand black theology as a global movement, not at all confined to the question of addressing racism in all of its varietie...

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Gordan Runyan

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Gordan Runyan exposes the foolishness of a congregation bowing to the demands of the State, on the basis of "rendering unto Caesar.

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Jerri Lynn Ward & Roger Oliver

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"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:20

Mike Ware, Criminal Defense Attorney and Executive Director of The Innocence Project of Texas discusses the causes of false confessions and wrongful convictions in this episode of Justice in His Kingdom. The hosts, Roger Oliver and Jerri Lynn Ward put this in the context of God’s law and his requirements for justice.

For more information about Mike Ware and The Innocence Project of Texas, visit InnocenceTexas.org and MikeWareLaw.com.