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The New Evangelicals Podcast

145. Decolonizing Your Deconstruction // Kristian A. Smith

The New Evangelicals Podcast

Tim Whitaker

News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Christianity

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Kristian A. Smith, online pastor, podcast host, social media content creator and author sits down with Tim to discuss his experience in the black church tradition. Kristian explains his background and what led him to deconstruct. Tim and Kristian discuss racism in both white and black churches. They also discuss decolonizing work that needs to be done in both white and black churches. Lastly, Tim and Kristian unpack privilege in both white and black churches. Follow us on Instagram @thenewevangelicals Support our work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today I want to talk about the Hellscape that is technical diagramming, right?

0:05.6

Everybody's nodding their heads right now, uh-huh.

0:07.6

And there is a potential solution that I want to share.

0:10.3

There was one name that several people brought up. I did some digging and it's

0:14.2

kind of nuts how much this program Miro has for developers. I have to share this. It could

0:18.9

potentially be a game changer for you. So my favorite part about Miro is that half the work is already done like right now typically we spend hours starting diagrams from scratch

0:27.7

gathering information you get buy-in from every team you know that's a lot of work to do but Miro has a full set of

0:34.2

integrations with the tools you're probably already using and they also offer

0:38.2

open-apis and SDKs for custom solutions for all those niche diagramming use cases we have to do, right?

0:44.0

So the end result is the same but it doesn't take forever.

0:47.8

It's a massive, massive time saver.

0:49.8

I'm transforming basic flow charts and network architectures and it all lives in one place.

0:55.1

So are you using Miro? Have you used it? I want to hear.

0:58.0

That's M I R.com.

1:00.3

This choircast podcast episode is brought to you by divine echoes reconciling prayer with the

1:06.2

uncontrolling love of God. How the heck does Petitionary prayer work in a world where there's so much suffering and evil. Is praying

1:14.8

for others just a religious superstitious practice that does nothing at all

1:19.1

except make the person praying feel better? If we don't pray for others, does God allow them to

1:25.3

get sicker, lose potential rent money, and suffer in their addictions? Is that who

1:30.7

God really is?

1:39.2

Can we engage in prayer that is more effective, less harmful, and doesn't make God look like an unfair, stingy and fickle jerk?

1:41.1

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