Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. We are going to talk today about a much

anticipated review of a book by E.Saw McCully called Reading While Black. I've told people who have asked me if I'm going to review this book

that I was planning on it, but it's been maybe even a month or two

in some scenarios.

And I've said, I'm getting to it. I'll try to get to it. And so I finally did read it and I want to share with you some of my thoughts.

I am concerned about this book. I do think it is dangerous. I do want to talk about the why it might be popular because it is it is

popular it's gotten into places some of the other social justice books might not

go the more hard left social justice type of books. I believe I saw this at

Liberty University when I walked into the bookstore. I know I saw someone sent me

the library at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

was promoting this book and I can't remember all the places but it is everywhere

it is a book that's gotten into all kinds of places and

Isam McCully, the only thing I knew really about him was he had stirred up some controversy probably a year ago, year and a half ago, something like that.

He had talked about it, and I think I actually write about this in my book,

Christianity, and Social Justice, Religions in Conflict.

I write about it in this book here, that he had made a post about

biblical interpretation and how it needed to be diversified essentially.

And this just created all kinds of pushback from people who said,

don't you just want people who know Greek and Hebrew and the original languages?

And why do you need a diverse panel to

interpret the Bible and so that was kind of my understanding of E. Sammakully and

I will say his book is consistent with my understanding of him.

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