Chris Singleton - Faith, Race, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
BONUS EPISODE
On June 17, 2015, nine people were murdered in a race motivated mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Sharonda Coleman Singleton was one of those people who were killed.
Her son, Chris Singleton joins us today to remember that horrific day, the conversations he was having on race 5 years ago and why they continue to be important conversations to have today. Chris shares why his faith in Christ has helped fuel him to continue sharing his mother's memory and why forgiveness has truly given him freedom to not hold on to bitterness and anger.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason |
| 0:22.5 | Romano. My email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. Jason at Sportspectrum.com. I'd love to hear |
| 0:29.5 | from you. Any feedback you have on today's show or any guest ideas, please email me, Jason |
| 0:34.4 | at Sportspectrum.com. Today is a little bonus episode of sports spectrum and we're |
| 0:41.2 | releasing this June 17th 2020 and it was five years ago June 17th 2015 that a mass shooting took |
| 0:51.3 | place at Emmanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. It was a race |
| 0:56.2 | filled, race hate type of crime and a murder of nine lives that were killed that day. |
| 1:04.9 | And one of those people was Sharonda Coleman Singleton, whose life was lost and she was a mother. |
| 1:11.8 | And her son, Chris Singleton, is our guest today on Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:17.7 | And Chris was actually on our Sports Spectrum podcast back in May of 2019, as we discussed |
| 1:24.7 | his journey of baseball and retirement and faith and forgiveness and trusting God |
| 1:31.6 | when it doesn't make sense. |
| 1:33.1 | And today, I just thought it was important to have another conversation with Chris, |
| 1:37.4 | considering it was five years ago that he went through, I guess, the worst kind of situation that any person could go through |
| 1:46.4 | when your mother is murdered, especially in a hate crime like that. But then all that's taken |
| 1:52.8 | place since with the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and Brianna Taylor and the conversations |
| 1:59.9 | that are taking place within our country |
| 2:01.7 | and specifically within our church. And so I thought it was important to have Chris come on |
| 2:06.3 | and kind of just share with us his perspective on what he thought has been taking place as far as |
| 2:12.9 | conversations, conversations that he really started to have and wanted to continue five years ago |
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