Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Well, hi, friends, and welcome. I'm Felicia Masonheimer with every woman of theologian,

and tonight in our Wednesday IGTV interview series, I'm welcoming Shireia Calibras from

Coco Gospels, who's going to be joining us and talking about cultivating fruitful conversations

about race. And she's already here and going to hop in here in just a second. I think you guys

are going to love meeting her. I have loved following her and learning from her,

regarding how to have these conversations in a fruitful way. And I think you're going to love

learning from her. So once she joins and Shireia, if you can't see it, it's up at the top in the

title. You can request to join the video there. There she is. And we'll get started.

Hi, how are you doing? I'm great. How are you? Good. I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you

for having me. I'm so honored to be here. Well, I know that I have enjoyed following you and the

way that you break down really complicated topics to be honest, especially about being a Black

Christian woman in America and what that looks like in conversations we have online and in real life.

And so I'm excited to get some of your input on this tonight and the time we have together.

So before we get into my questions, why don't you tell us a little bit about you, your family,

and what you do. Okay. So I have two kiddos. I have a three-year-old and eight-month-old to be

and my husband and I have been married for almost five years. He's in the military. So we're

station in Georgia, which is where we are. I'm originally from Colorado. Right now, I just stay at

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