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

Serious talk about the sacred book. I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Byeth.

Hey everybody, welcome to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.

And our topic today is preaching the Bible in the Black Church.

And our guest is Austin Channing Brown, who has been touring the solar system and the galaxies

for the past few months from a book that she wrote last year.

Yep, I'm still here. Black dignity in a world made for whiteness.

Right, which is just a huge hit and a lot of people resonating with the book.

But we're talking about the experience of preaching in the Bible and just overall experience

in the Black Church.

And I was a fascinating and very informative discussion.

I actually learned quite a bit.

And it's one of the metrics I have for a successful episodes here at the Bible for Normal People.

How much do I learn? And I learned a lot from Austin.

So I appreciated that.

And I was just like continuing seminary education.

And I mean that.

Really, like we learned so like, oh, okay, that's interesting.

From different perspectives and different experiences, which in a seminary you don't always

get.

And that's not always the fault of the seminary.

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