You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Hey everyone, we thought it was important this week to interrupt our regularly scheduled

program and look back at a conversation that we had with Drew Hart, an assistant professor

of theology at Messiah College all the way back in season one of the podcast called the

Bible, Race, and White Supremacy.

I was introduced to Drew as he came to our congregation many years ago and talked to

us about race.

He has a book called Trouble I've Seen Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, which

we would endorse and recommend for you to pick up.

And as I thought about this, back in this first airing of this episode in 2017, it was

only two weeks after the events of Charlotte'sville, if you want to look that up back then

and what happened there that we recorded this episode.

And it was very fresh on all of our minds and all of our hearts.

And here we find ourselves again in light of the untimely deaths of Amod Arbery and Breonna

Taylor and George Floyd.

So it's an important conversation.

I would encourage you to take it to heart and may we continue to fight for and be a part

of a more just world.

With that, here's our conversation with Drew Hart, the Bible, Race, and White Supremacy.

Sometimes we act like the church was kind of drug into slavery and white supremacy.

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