S E190: What Does Your God Look Like?

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Africana Studies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Karen Hunter, Empowerment, Greg Carr

4.9 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In a breakdown of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, Karen explores God and God's power through Baldwin's lens and applies it to today.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:17.0	As I'm reading the Fire Next Time by James Baldwin I'm going to continue to do narratives on this as I go through it I am struck by James Baldwin struggles with his own spirituality, with his own God.
0:27.0	And this past week I got, as I mentioned, a chance to talk with Neil Degrass Tyson who has not vigilantly been an atheist but pretty much is
0:38.3	an atheist, a scientist and astrophysicist who can argue most things but cannot tell me what was the
0:46.8	catalyst to the Big Bang. I'd like everyone listening to my voice to close your
0:52.1	eyes. Close your eyes if you believe in
0:55.2	God what does God look like what does God look like what does God look like?
1:05.0	The struggles that Baldwin was having as his dad literally tried to beat Jesus into him, as the streets tried to beat Jesus into him as the streets tried to beat it out of him. His relationship with
1:18.0	Malcolm X and Elijah Mohammed and the nation of Islam showing him a different way, but yet still not quite finding his way.
1:27.2	He talks a lot in this book about the white Christian God and the Black Allah, the God of the Muslim Allah is black, you know, and as I'm reading it, you know, I'm not at all wavering. I am 100% in line with God. I'm 100% a
1:49.0	faithful servant of God. But I think to be a Christian or to be a follow of Christ or to be a person of faith
1:58.8	requires you to pursue.
2:05.0	Iron sharpens iron, that scripture,
2:08.0	but faith is not faith unless it's tested.
2:10.0	And I'm not saying you're testing God,
2:12.0	I'm saying, hold it up under the light.
2:14.6	Think about it, you know, waiver some, come back to it. Read some things, challenge
2:20.8	yourself. And this is what I'm doing as I'm peeling apart this
2:24.5	beautiful masterpiece the fire next time the fire next time James Baldwin and I'm
2:29.8	going to read some
2:34.1	elegant words and he's struggling through it he's putting it on paper with some elegant words and he's one of the most brilliant writers of our time.
2:37.3	He says priests and nuns and school teachers help to protect and sanctify the power that was so ruthlessly being
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