Race and Covenant

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Race and Covenant Our delightful duo is honored with a visit from a special guest. Gerry McDermott is an old friend and former Anglican Chair of Divinity at Samford’s Beeson Divinity School. He’s a prolific author, writing brilliantly on a wide variety of subjects ranging from theology and philosophy to famous stutterers. Just a few months ago, McDermott edited Race and Covenant, a collection of essays ignited by the desire to uncover–in the light of Scripture–why race became the number one issue in the country after the presidential election of 2008. Race and Covenant is the work of several very articulate thinkers–Christians and Jews from different traditions, and people from different races and ethnicities contributing their perspectives on the topic. Where does the word “covenant” fit when addressing race? Is there any good to be found in Critical Race Theory? Listen closely to this important conversation, and be sure to share it with a friend! Show Notes · Institute on Religion and Democracy · Robert L. Woodson · The Elect: The Threat to a Progressive America from Anti-Black Antiracists · Carol M. Swain · Derryck Green · Glenn C. Loury · Voddie Baucham Register for the opportunity to win a free copy of Race and Covenant: Recovering the Religious Roots for American Reconciliation. The books come compliments of the Acton Institute.

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0:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by PCRT Live, April 28th through May 5th.
0:05.3	Listen for more at the conclusion of today's program.
0:32.6	Welcome. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:38.4	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:52.2	Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:54.4	My name is Carl Truman, Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in beautiful western Pennsylvania.
1:01.2	And I'm here with my usual co-host, Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:08.5	Virginia, which is now vying for Oregon as the most liberal state in the union, I think,
1:14.2	if the headlines are to be believed.
1:15.6	Just a portion of Virginia.
1:17.4	Just a bit in your neighborhood.
1:18.7	Is that the...
1:19.2	No.
1:20.9	Well, we're fortunate, blessed today to have a special guest, an old friend of mine, the Reverend Dr. Gerald McDermott,
1:30.2	who was the Anglican Chair of Divinity at the wonderful Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham,
1:37.5	Alabama, successor there to another old friend of mine, Reverend Dr. Gerald Bray.
1:44.0	Jerry reminds me of that kind of Anglican vicar that
1:50.4	the 18th century sort of specialized in, where you'd have somebody who doesn't just write
1:55.7	brilliantly on one subject, but writes brilliantly on a whole variety of subjects. Jerry is
2:00.7	author of what is probably,
2:03.0	is definitely the definitive study of the theology of Jonathan Edwards. He's also written a
2:09.5	history of stutterers. Jerry is a remarkable polymathic individual, and there's so much
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