Hello, dear listener, you just clicked play at homebrewed Christianity. My name is Tripp Fuller,

and I am pumped that you are here today. On the podcast that's been seeking to give you

ingredients to think, reflect, challenge, wrestle, brew your own faith since 2008, we are being visited

for the very first time by Dr. Jwanza,

Eric Clark. He is Associate Professor of Global Christianity at Manhattan College in New York

City and the author of a brand new book, Reclaiming Stolen Earth, an Africana Eco

Theology. This text, this text is one of those that when I started reading,

I like underlined and hit the word, like, amen on the side. And then the other, the next paragraph,

I'm like, yikes, that's challenging. What am I going to do with this? And I struggled and I wrestled,

and I cheered, and I moaned. This is a text where if you're a theology nerd like me

and you take seriously the criticisms that come out of the black theological tradition

and the eco-feminist voices and are looking at the challenge we face in global climate change

and all the social crises that come out of it.

Then Eric in this text says, what if the problem of whiteness hasn't been understood and it's a theological problem?

And what if we frame it and engage it and analyze it from outside the framings of dominant theology?

What if the way we frame questions,

what if the paradigms of possible answers

already have within it,

the undoing of the critique that's needed

to have a flourishing relationship

among all the creatures of this planet.

Oh, that's what I'm talking about.

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