First15 Conversation: Jemar Tisby
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🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This is not a comfortable conversation. It is, however, an important one.
Today we’re taking a break from our focus on mental/emotional wellness to have an incredibly honest conversation with Jemar Tisby, the author of the book The Color of Compromise. We’re diving back into the subject of racism, hoping to better understand its history, its current affect on our world, and how we can be a part of the solution.
We discuss things like…
-Is racism actually a systemic issue?
-What is the church’s involvement in the history of racism?
-Is supporting “Black Lives Matter” supporting an anti-Christian organization?
-Practical steps we all can take toward racial reconciliation
Here at First15, we believe that God is for racial reconciliation, but we also know that it will take a continued willingness to have uncomfortable, yet grace-filled conversations if we’re going to see true change. We hope that this can be one of those conversations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Today we're taking a break from our focus on |
| 0:10.2 | mental emotional wellness to have an incredibly important conversation with |
| 0:14.8 | Jamartisbee, the author of the book The Color of Compromise. We're going to be |
| 0:19.8 | discussing race, racism, and how each of us can work towards healing the racial divides |
| 0:25.9 | that continue to plague our nation and the world. |
| 0:29.4 | Here at 1st 15, we believe that God is for racial reconciliation, |
| 0:33.0 | but we also know that it's going to take a continued willingness |
| 0:36.0 | to have uncomfortable, yet graceful conversations |
| 0:40.0 | if we're going to see true change. |
| 0:42.0 | So we hope that this can be one of those conversations for you today. |
| 0:46.0 | Thanks for being a part of and me. We've been excited about this conversation ever since it landed on the calendar and so I know there's a million things going on in your life and your day even so thanks for making space to talk with us. |
| 1:11.6 | Oh, I'm honored by the invitation. |
| 1:14.4 | Thank you so much for hosting this important discussion. |
| 1:17.4 | Well, I think it's probably the first time we ever had an actual historian on our |
| 1:21.5 | podcast. |
| 1:22.6 | And so it's one of the reasons I'm really excited, |
| 1:24.4 | especially towards this conversation. |
| 1:26.4 | So maybe just to kick it off, |
| 1:28.2 | could you tell us a little bit about how you see |
| 1:31.3 | the importance of history when it comes to a discussion around race and racism in the United States. |
| 1:38.3 | So technically I'm a historian in training. |
| 1:41.0 | I actually get my PhD in history right now at the University of Mississippi, |
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