Episode 177: Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. - Social Justice & the Radical Gospel

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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For this episode, Pete and Jared are joined by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., who walks us through pervasive biblical evidence for social justice. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:08.5	Hello everybody welcome to this episode of the podcast our topic today is social justice and the radical gospel and our guest is Obre Hendrix.
0:18.5	Yep and Obre is a visiting professor at Columbia University and union theological seminary and author of the book Christians against Christianity which is just come out but.
0:28.0	This was really based on our reading of one chapter of that book and talking about this idea of social justice.
0:35.1	Yeah he really lays out the biblical evidence is the right word for it have how pervasive the idea is.
0:40.4	Yeah and I just think in our again in the circles I would have run in and and seeing that the chit chat on social media there's this sense in which social justice is pitted against the Bible or against Christianity which has me scratching my head.
0:56.0	So I think it was great for Obre to lay everything out like that.
0:58.6	Yeah hope you enjoyed.
1:00.8	The most foundational and most often occurring and often used ethical concept in the Bible is justice, mischievous justice and doing justice in community or doing right in society together.
1:15.6	What you get is social justice doing justice in society doing right in society.
1:21.4	It's amazing that this is never talked about in Christian circles.
1:29.7	I've entered the Rick and Morty multiverse so many times at all for that I don't know whether I'm Rick, Morty.
1:37.1	Oh my god.
1:38.3	Am I Rick?
1:39.4	Am I Morty?
1:40.5	Am I me?
1:41.7	Am I Rick?
1:42.7	Am I Morty?
1:43.7	Am I me?
1:45.0	I don't know.
1:46.2	Watch now on all four.
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