Episode 76: Xavier Pickett - So When Did White Christian America Lose Its Mind?

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The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode, Pete & Jared talk to Xavier Pickett about the Bible and slavery, the Bible and race, and the importance of theologian James Cone. RESOURCES Reformed Blacks of America "The Civil War as a Theological Crisis" by Mark Knoll "Stony The Road We Trod" by Dr. Cain Hope Felder "How The Bible Actually Works" by Pete Enns. 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,
0:02.2	the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:05.3	Serious talk about the sacred book.
0:07.4	I'm Pete Ends.
0:08.2	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:11.2	Hey, everybody. Welcome to this episode of the Bible
0:13.6	for Normal People.
0:14.9	And our topic today is, so when did white Christian
0:18.3	America lose its mind?
0:20.3	And our guest is Xavier Pickett.
0:22.2	Yeah, Xavier is a visiting assistant professor at NYU.
0:27.0	And he had a lot of good things to say about white Christian
0:30.9	America.
0:31.5	I mean, the word, I don't know if you used the word at all during
0:34.1	the interview, but I kept thinking like systemic racism and how
0:37.9	deep it is.
0:38.9	And he gave a lot of insight about like the Civil War and how
0:41.9	the Bible was used.
0:43.2	And stuff that, you know, you think some of this stuff might be
0:46.2	more recent, but the black church has been thinking about this
0:49.3	and black theologians have been thinking about this for a long
0:51.8	time.
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