802: #702 - Race, Repent, and Repair: With Tyler Burns
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🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Tyler Burns is the vice-president of The Witness, which is a black Christian collective that engages issues of religion, race, justice, and culture from a biblical perspective. Tyler is also the co-host of "Pass the Mic" podcast. In this extra raw conversation, Tyler helps us understand current race conversations from a black perspective and educates white evangelicals on our own blind spots and how we can embody Christ in our culture moment. Two things from this convo that really stand out.
First, that white people typically respond cerebrally to situations (what are the facts? Show me the evidence?) while black people typically respond with emotion. Neither is "right or wrong," but it's incredibly helpful to understand both social environments.
Second, Tyler said that the progressive woke white crowd is just as unproductive as the far right, white supremacist crowed. Black people aren't concern with Aunt Jemima and white, woke, political correctness. Rather, black people want to see actual justice and change.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, friends, you are in for an incredibly engaging conversation with the one and only |
| 0:07.8 | Tyler Burns. Let me tell you about Tyler. Tyler is the Vice President of the Witness, |
| 0:14.0 | which is a black Christian collective that |
| 0:16.0 | engages issues of religion, race, justice, |
| 0:18.0 | and culture from a biblical perspective. |
| 0:20.0 | Tyler is also a co-host of Pass the Mike podcast along with Jamar Tisbee. |
| 0:27.0 | I know some of you have read Jamar's best-selling book, The Color of Compromise, |
| 0:32.0 | and I would highly recommend that book, and so does Tyler. |
| 0:35.4 | Tyler, what do, God, I just, I'm just still spinning after having this conversation. I just had this conversation with |
| 0:44.0 | Tyler I'm recording this intro after the fact and my head is spinning my heart |
| 0:48.8 | is spinning I was trying to think of another word, couldn't think of anything. |
| 0:54.0 | Tyler, I mean, he helped me to understand some of the racial tensions going on today in culture in the church. |
| 1:07.0 | He helped me understand blind spots that many white evangelicals have in the race conversation. |
| 1:15.0 | I just, I, you'll hear, I mean you won't hear a lot of me. |
| 1:18.7 | I do talk in the podcast, but I'm just sitting there just absorbing the stuff that Tyler talks about it is so |
| 1:25.6 | incredibly good and challenging so I encourage you to go check out Tyler's stuff |
| 1:30.9 | if you if you go to the witness bc.com the witness bccc.com |
| 1:37.3 | check out the materials and resources that they have there you can also check out his |
| 1:41.2 | podcast past the mic. |
| 1:43.2 | We talk about all kinds of stuff in this episode and Tyler gets fired up and I'm so excited |
| 1:50.3 | about that. |
| 1:52.2 | There's so much I want to say, but I just want you to listen to this. |
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