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Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything.

I'm Matt Love.

I'm here with J.D. Greer.

And, J.D., we are continuing the conversation we had last time on the podcast.

Last time we were talking about what Christians should know about critical race theory. And this week we wanted to talk more about, Jady, how should Christians have conversations about critical

race theory? Because the reason we're asking this question is because on whether it's on social

media or in churches or whatever it is, there's just a lot of conversation happening about this.

And I think you and I would both agree that some of it is probably not the most

healthy conversation right now. Yeah. In fact, in some ways you might say this is the more

important of the question. Yes. Because simply getting content out there is we are

relational beings and things that touch things this sensitive are relational questions. They're

not questions of the head as much as they are of the

heart. And that's for me a really been a helpful place to start that some of my friends of

color have really helped me to see in this is that for us, and we said this in the last podcast,

for some of us, this is more of an academic analysis. But for many people, this is, it's an

attempt to explain some of the pain, some of the hurt,

some of the shame, that when these situations happen, they connect to a long history. And yes,

we understand that a white person today is not guilty of what a white person did 200 years ago,

but there have been ways that

our society has been shaped. There's a long memory. There is the legacy of sin. And so it brings

into these discussions some of that of that herd. And so when I'm talking about the presence of

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