211: Permission to be Black | Recovering from Racial Trauma ft. A.D. Thomason
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Embracing your Christian identity does not make you "soft." Embracing your Black identity does not make you less Christian. Throughout American history, Black people were not given the freedom to acknowledge their suffering. A. D. Thomason believes that the Holy Spirit brings freedom and liberation as we're able to name our pain, recognize its roots in history and society, and seek healing. While many saw a confident, six-foot-five Black man, A. D. "Lumkile" Thomason lived most of his life in fear and anguish, deeply wounded by encounters with violence, abandonment, and family tragedy. Hiding behind a tough exterior, Adam earned his "Black card" but felt joyless inside. Even traveling around the globe to play professional basketball could not resolve his despair. But in the art of Jay-Z, A. D. discovered stirring honesty that gave voice to his own expressions of longing. And in the gospel of Jesus, he experienced the healing and salvation that had long evaded him. Now through what he calls "kingdom therapy," he's figuring out how to redefine the Jay-Z and Jesus that make up his blackness. A. D. uses his artistry as a poet and storyteller to share how he confessed his internalized pain and embraced the liberating joy of Christ. He writes for millennials, emerging adults, and anyone else who's ready to acknowledge the reality of racial trauma and our need to confront it. A. D.'s powerful story gives you permission to be Black, to be Christian, and to be the person God has made you to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.0 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.0 | The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective |
| 0:25.2 | of the survivors. |
| 0:26.9 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.9 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.4 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinsky. |
| 0:38.4 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. On today's episode, I'm sitting down |
| 0:42.7 | with Ad. Lungkele Thomason. He is the author of Permission to Be Black. He's a speaker, poet, |
| 0:49.7 | and award-winning filmmaker, and is spoken around the nation in places such as Sudan, South Africa, |
| 0:54.7 | China, and Palestine. As an adjunct professor at Kilns College, he teaches on human rights, |
| 1:00.0 | decolonizing your faith in filmmaking. A native of Detroit, AD has more than 17 years of experience, |
| 1:05.8 | preaching and teaching the peace of Jesus in ethnically divided countries, cultures, and communities. |
| 1:11.9 | He and his wife, Don Toya, live in the Atlanta area with their family. |
| 1:16.4 | You can find out more about his book at permission to be black.com, or you can grab a copy |
| 1:20.7 | simply by clicking the link in the show notes or description of this video, and you can find |
| 1:25.3 | a copy over there. |
| 1:26.6 | We had a really good conversation about |
| 1:28.4 | a variety of difficult topics surrounding race, religion, and so much more. And I think you're |
| 1:34.2 | really going to enjoy this talk. Here without further ado is my conversation with Adi Thomason. |
| 1:40.2 | Adi, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Excited to be here. Yeah, glad to have you on. |
| 1:45.3 | I really, really appreciate your book. |
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