Danté Stewart on Faith, Identity, and Finding a Voice
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Danté Stewart is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment, and elsewhere. He received his BA in sociology from Clemson University and is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
In this episode, Eric and Dante discuss his book, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle
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Danté Stewart and I Discuss Faith, Identity, Finding a Voice, and…
- His book, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle
- Learning to care for ourselves as a whole person and not just the individual parts of us
- How it’s easy to allow our work to mask who we really are
- His experience of spending time in and assimilating to the predominantly white church and culture
- The tension he felt between his different social identities
- The paradox of being visible and invisible when you’re a marginalized person
- How he needed to learn to give voice to his psychological pain, struggle, and rage
- The issue with current value systems and social constructs that view white dominance as the norm
- How he has learned that there isn’t just one answer, but many answers to how we can become a better version of ourselves both as individuals and communities
- His CNN article, “We Redefined Blackness as a World and a Gift”
- Art is about taking intangible dreams and making them tangible out in the world
- Finding wholeness is about trying to make sense of the past in order to create a better future
- How his writing is how he can give voice to what he’s feeling
- Comparison is the thief of creativity
- The importance of creating as it is what makes us come alive
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| 0:00.0 | that oftentimes we compare ourselves with the worst in ourselves and the best in other people. |
| 0:06.0 | And when we do that, we will always look down on our journey. We will always diminish how much we've changed. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:24.0 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:34.0 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:38.0 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:46.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:49.0 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
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| 2:14.0 | Listen to Rewives with Bethany Frankel on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. |
| 2:22.0 | Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Dante Stewart, a Theologian, essayist, and cultural critic. His work has appeared on CNN and The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more. |
| 2:34.0 | Dante received his BA in Sociology from Clemson University and is currently studying at the Chandler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 2:43.0 | Today, Dante and Eric discuss his book, Shouting in the Fire, An American Epistle. |
| 2:48.0 | Hey, Dante, welcome to the show. Hey, well, what's up, man? It's good to be with you. |
| 2:52.0 | We're going to be talking about your book, Shouting in the Fire, An American Epistle, Among other things. |
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