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Homebrewed Christianity

Brian Bantum on Redeeming Mulatto

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6612 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Brian Bantum teaches theology at Seattle Pacific University out in the mighty Northwest.  This spring when he and Callid were both at the Christian Leadership Forum of  FTE they sat down to talk about Brian's book Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity. Because they are in a hotel lobby there a bit of background noise, but it is such a terrific interview that you'll want to listen all the way through anyway  If you want to followup on this conversation another great resource is this video of Brian giving a talk called "The Church Cannot be About Multiculturalism" at Quest Church's annual day conference on Faith & Race. Bantum is on twitter as well. Special thanks to our sponsors at  Phillips Theological Seminary and Chalice Press: their sponsorship helps us keep getting these out to you for free. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:15.4

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0:23.7

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Their global faculty and diverse student body nurture class discussions that reflect the contextual

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slash homebrewd. That's Garrett, G-A-R-R-E-T-T-D-U slash homebrew.

1:15.8

The reality is we see racial and ethnic demographics in the United States quickly change.

1:22.2

But at the same time, we have these historical realities of how race has structurally ordered our lives and how we

1:29.8

imagine ourselves. And the reality is the church is a part of that. The church is historically

1:35.9

embedded in those racial distinctions and those racial histories. And so what this book is trying to

1:41.9

do is to say, what does it mean to take seriously the realities that we have been,

1:47.0

realities with which we've been formed racially, but also what does it mean to kind of reimagine who we ought to be,

1:55.0

but not through a post-racial lens where we pretend like it doesn't exist anymore,

1:59.0

but where God takes the particularities of who we are and, in a sense, transforms them,

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