Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at

Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell,

Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School

of Theology Biola University.

We're here with our guest today, Monique Dusan,

who is the founder and director of the Center for Biblical Unity.

It's an organization committed to bringing unity within the body of Christ and the culture in general over issues of race and racism.

And Monique has a special interest in one particular component of the discussion of race that we don't hear a lot about.

And it's more has to do with the underlying philosophy that undergirds a lot of the discussion about race today known as critical race theory.

So we'll get into more of that.

If you're not familiar with that, Monique will tell us exactly what's involved with that particular philosophy and how it manifests

itself in a lot of the discussions about race and the broader culture today.

So Monique, welcome, really glad to have you with us and looking forward to hearing your story and some of your insights on critical race theory.

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

So tell us just a little bit about your background

and sort of where you grew up and how you came

to be interested in the subject of critical race theory. Well I grew up in South Los Angeles and grew up to

a single parent and four siblings. I became interested in critical race theory almost accidentally.

Like it was like I was born into this rhetoric.

There would be things like or term set like well you know white people just

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