Jemar Tisby / Holistic and Historical Racial Justice: Awareness, Relationships, Commitment
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.
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture · Jemar Tisby
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Show Notes
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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