What is it like to be a person of color in a predominantly white evangelical church?

Does fitting in require someone to change their behavior, appearance, and speech?

And if so, what does that say about the church?

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church. I'm Julie

Roy's. And joining me today is Janai Amin. Janai is a survivor of spiritual abuse in an

Acts 29 church. She's also a certified trauma support specialist and has a really unique

ministry writing about healing, hope, and the way forward for those who have experienced religious abuse

and trauma. Janai also hosts a private online community called Wilderness Forum. This is a safe

place for other spiritual abuse survivors to process their stories and find healing. In this podcast,

we're going to talk about Janai's journey. We'll discuss how she came to Christ

and then got involved in the Reformed Church movement, and then had one of the most painful

experiences in her life when she became the target of spiritual abuse. But we're also going

to talk about her unique experience of growing up biracial in Texas and serving in the white

evangelical church. And how being an abuse survivor has

opened her eyes to other problems in the church like how we treat and marginalized persons of

color. I know this is going to be a challenging and important discussion and I'm so excited to

have Janai on this podcast. But before we dive in, I'd like to thank the sponsors of this podcast, the Restore

Conference, and Mark Horta Barrington. I am so excited to announce the next Restore Conference,

June 9th and 10th at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. Joining us for this amazing two-day event

to restore faith in God and the church will be many leading

abuse survivor advocates. These include our beloved speakers who have joined us before,

Wade Mullen, Scott McKnight, Mary Dumuth, Lori Ann Thompson, and Nagmei Panahi.

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