583: One Black Family’s Story about Poverty, Racism, & Grace with Esau McCaulley
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Theologian and writer, Esau McCaulley, is back to talk about his new memoir “How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South.” He says there is grace in learning to tell the complicated facets of his family’s story, rather than reducing it to a single story about race, poverty, or trauma. McCaulley believes that’s a lesson we need to apply to America’s story as well. Also this week, David Brooks writes about the courage and wisdom of three women during World War II. What do their stories tell us about the Christian life today? Plus, why are men thinking so much about the Roman Empire? And a three-legged bear walks into a bar.
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0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Show starts
2:13 - Theme Song
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4:15 - A Three-Legged Bear Walks Into a Bar
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45:43 - Interview Intro
Esau McCaulley
49:32 - Why Esau wrote a memoir
54:28 - The Black American Experience
1:20:34 - Fatherhood
1:26:48 - End Credits
Links mentioned in news segment:
A Three-Legged Bear Walks Into a Bar
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/us/three-legged-bear-tripod-florida-lake-mary.html
Men Think About the Roman Empire All the Time. Here’s What Women Say They Think About
https://time.com/6315328/roman-empire-tiktok-trend-women-response/
The Feminine Way to Wisdom
https://comment.org/the-feminine-way-to-wisdom/
Other resources:
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley
Esau McCaulley - https://esaumccaulley.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Holy Post. Theologian and writer, Esom Akali, is back to talk about his |
| 0:07.0 | new memoir, How Far To The Promised Land, One Black Family Story of Hope and Survival |
| 0:12.6 | in the American South. He says there is grace and learning to tell the complicated facets |
| 0:17.6 | of his family's story rather than reducing it to a single story about race, poverty, or |
| 0:22.8 | just trauma. But Akali believes that's a lesson we need to apply to America's story as |
| 0:27.6 | well. Also this week, David Brooks writes about the courage and wisdom of three women during |
| 0:33.0 | World War II. What do their stories tell us about the Christian life today? Plus, why are |
| 0:39.0 | men thinking so much about the Roman Empire and a three-legged bear walks into a bar? |
| 0:44.8 | As always, there's a lot going on beyond just today's episode. This week we've released |
| 0:49.0 | our first episode of a new sub-series, Why I'm Still a Christian. This first episode |
| 0:54.4 | features La Cray and you don't want to miss it. And for our Holy Post Plus subscribers, |
| 0:59.6 | Phil is hosting a live stream with Old Testament scholar Dr. John Walton, where you can ask |
| 1:04.6 | him all of your Bible questions directly. And of course, there's new episodes of Getting |
| 1:09.1 | Schooled by Caitlin Chess and Christian Asks. Go to HolyPost.com to access all of our content |
| 1:15.6 | and to learn how you can sign up to become a Holy Post Plus subscriber. Here is episode |
| 1:20.6 | 583. Hey there, welcome back to the podcast. This is HolyPost podcast. I'm Phil Vissier. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm here with Christian Taylor. Hi, Christian. Hey Phil. And Skye. Jatani. Hi Phil. |
| 1:34.7 | That's how they would introduce you if you hosted a game show. Then you'd come running |
| 1:40.0 | out. Skye. Jatani. Yeah. Or they could say, come on down like the |
| 1:46.3 | price is right. If I was a contestant. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Skye. Jatani. Come on down. |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah. The next contestant on the price. Okay. Christian, where have you been? Anywhere? |
| 1:57.1 | Last two weeks. I was taken care of my daddy and Madison, Mississippi. |
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