Welcome to the Leadership Now podcast with Dr. Aaron Rock, hosted on Beachhead Media and other podcasting platforms.

Aaron has served as a pastor, chaplain, professor, writer, and speaker, and he has a keen interest in helping other Christians think Christianly about all of life.

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I'm your guest host Chris Eilman, and today we are going to talk about the nine causes causes of racism.

So Aaron, racial rhetoric is on the rise. We hear it all the time and even some so-called

Christians quote unquote are promoting racism. We know culturally racism is expressed in

DEI hiring, anti-Semitism, the BLM protests and whatnot, indigenous movements, the constant references

to white supremacy and on and on and on.

But why, I think is the question, right?

So what factors rise contribute to the rise in racism and how can we combat it as Christians?

So today, Aaron, you're going to investigate,

examine nine different causes of racism. So we'll get started with this question. We know racism

is contrary to the gospel. So can you talk to us about why racism is a denial of biblical categories?

Yeah, thank you, Chris. and thanks for filling in. Jesse's

running a day camp this week, so he's not able to be with us, so it's good to have the old pro

back on the show. This is a significant concern. I've held off addressing it directly for a little

bit because I've noticed on social media, especially Twitter, there's been a lot of debates and discussion back and forth

in the Reformed Christian world about this issue.

A lot of debates and discussions about how this ties into Christian nationalism.

And I've got to say I did a program on Christian nationalism,

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