Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Thank you so much for being here. I hope that you are having

the best week ever. I hope that you are enjoying your summer. Today we're going to talk about a

contentious topic. We're going to talk about race and racism and intersectionality. Now this is

something that we have talked about on my podcast many times if you would like a thorough understanding

of where I or how I approached this subject, particularly from a biblical perspective. I did

a podcast about a year and a half ago about the fallacies and the argument for so cold racial

reconciliation that we're seeing in the church right now. I did one at the beginning of the year

called the Gospel of grievance. I encourage you to go listen to that. I also encourage you to

listen to the one titled Wayward Wokeness. And then there was another one directly after that about

Black liberation theology and it ties to Marxism and the nation of Islam. The reason why we've

talked about race so much is because it is something that is covered almost constantly. It seems

like at least once a day in the news. There is some story that has something to do with race or with

racism. It's been especially prevalent within evangelical Christianity. The conversation about how

Christians should approach race and racial issues and like I said racial reconciliation. But if you

want a basic understanding of what I think about racism as a Christian, I mean it should be fairly

obvious but racism is from the pit of hell. Any kind of hatred or animosity that you feel towards

your fellow man who has made in the image of God no matter what they look like is evil. And as we

will discuss you cannot love God and hate your brother as first John makes very clear at several

points. So whether we are talking about systemic racism or whether we are talking about individual

racism, whether we are talking about an action that is spurred by racism or a word that is spurred

by racism, it is evil. And it is something that we as Christians believe that we should

repent from. And there are disagreements within Christianity of what that actually looks like and

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