Jemar Tisby
Park Church Podcast
English - August 30, 2017 23:11 - 45 minutes - 18.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Show Notes
2:25 – Who Jemar Tisby is
5:00 – What he learned while doing Teach For America in the Mississippi Delta
7:35 – Why he decided to go from being a teacher to a seminary student
9:45 – Why he decided to get his PhD in History
12:35 – Why the confederate statues went up (and why they must come down)
14:20 – The history of white supremacy in American churches
17:30 – Recommended resources on the history of segregation in the American church
21:50 – Lessons he learned from being in a multi-ethnic church
26:10 – The best way for a church to respond after an event like Charlottesville
30:15 – Longer term steps to becoming multi-ethnic
35:40 – His issue with Malcom Gladwell’s podcast about Brown vs. Board
37:45 – Why it’s so important for teachers to invest in their students (and why we need more minority teachers)
40:50 – Three books by African American authors that everyone should read
43:15 – If he could put a billboard anywhere, where it would go and what it would say
Links
Vice Charlottesville Documentary
The Fierce Urgency of the Now
The Image of God and the African American Experience
After Charlottesville, will white pastors finally take racism seriously?
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Jude 3 Project
Malcom Gladwell Podcast
Jesus and the Disinherited
The Coming Race War in America: A Wake Up Call
Let Justice Roll Down