Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw if you would like to support show you can consider that through my patron account patreon dot com forward slash theology in the raw

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where I can just ask them, hey what questions do you have and devote patron

only podcast to, sorry, devote Q&A podcast to my Patreon-only supporters.

So if you do miss the Q&As, I know some of you do, I'm sorry, but yeah, you can

you can that sounds so sleazy

oh you want your Q&A well better support me that's not that's not the point

so I'm just gonna stop because I'm getting myself in trouble.

But this whole podcast is going to get me in trouble.

I have back on the show Ed Usinsky, my very good friend Ed Yizinsky,

Ed and I go way way back.

He is one of the most enjoyable human beings I've ever been around. He's a thoughtful

guy. He's provocative. He doesn't mind mixing it up. He doesn't mind asking super hard questions.

He doesn't mind at all pushing back and that's what I love it. I just I can talk to Ed for hours and we have a long conversation here. So Ed and I we get into the whole, well let me me, the little backstory, I said, Ed, can you help us think

through critical theory, and specifically critical race theory, because he is somewhat of an

expert in that. He did his PhD PhD basically in critical theory or at least

that was a huge part of it and Ed's such a thoughtful guy he's willing to

consider things from all angles he's he thinks thoroughly through things he doesn't just

react he's very balanced in so many different ways so that was the goal to talk

about critical theory we did that for the goal to talk about critical theory.

We did that for the first 10 minutes and then we ended up getting into the race conversation and

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