We plan to take the week of Thanksgiving off from the podcast to give you some time to listen

to the Providence Book audiobook, those excerpts that we published last week.

I hope you will set aside time to do that really important content.

I think you'll be blessed by it.

But we returned yesterday on Monday with a new episode on the growing debate over critical

race theory.

So what exactly is it, Pastor John is about to explain in this follow-up episode.

On Monday we looked at the relational dimensions of the debate and here now is Pastor John

with critical race theory part two, the root problem.

So this is our second episode about critical race theory.

I focused last time on two biblical relational principles that I so wanted to plead for.

And I postponed a definition of what critical race theory is and the question of why it

is so controversial and why it matters.

So that's what we are about now in this session.

In my understanding, critical race theory is worth talking about not only because it

is causing divisions among Christians at points where I don't think those divisions need

to exist, but also because in its mainstream expression, not every use made of it, but

in its mainstream expression, it is another manifestation of the age, old and slavement

of fallen human hearts.

To self-deification, I will be my own God.

Self-definition.

I will define my own essential identity and self-determination.

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