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Being Known Podcast

S11E13: Unseen Structures: Caste, Power, and Healing the Fractures Beneath Our Feet

Being Known Podcast

Being Known Podcast

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We often shy away from conversations about race, caste, and power because of discomfort or fear of making mistakes—but this episode is an invitation to get in the game. Join us as we step into the complex and often unseen world of caste systems--which are more than race alone--as they manifest within American culture, exploring how deeply entrenched social structures and inherited hierarchies shape our interactions, identities, and sense of belonging.   Building on themes from our previous conversation about church wounding, we draw from poignant personal experience, historical context, and biblical reflection to invite listeners into a posture of curiosity and compassion. Rather than offering easy solutions, this conversation encourages each of us to examine where we are in the social power gradient and what it means to steward that position with intentionality and humility. It’s the beginning of the slow, sacred work of repair—relationally and structurally—so we can become the kind of people, and the kind of community, who create beauty and goodness together.     Episode Links and References Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair - Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation - Latasha Morrison    . . . . . Stay connected: Instagram, Facebook YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.) Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts.  Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Being Known podcast with my friends, Dr. Kurt Thompson, MD, and Amy Chella.

0:19.0

And my friends, Dr. Kurt Thompson and Pepper Sweeney.

0:24.7

And my friends, Amy Chella, and the most beautiful man in the world, Pepper Sweeney.

0:32.1

We are here to discover and explore what it means to be truly known.

0:39.1

Hey, friends.

0:40.8

Hey.

0:41.6

Hey, guys.

0:42.7

Something a little bit.

0:43.4

This is a new one for us.

0:44.2

Yes, something a little bit different today.

0:47.0

It's going to be, you're going to get the trio of us for the entire episode.

0:51.3

And you're welcome.

0:53.9

Usually I go get a fresh cup of coffee about now, but here I am.

0:58.2

Yeah.

0:59.6

You're just on countdown and making sure everything that Kurt says is factual.

1:06.8

Doing my own.

1:07.7

And he's just thought over there making stuff up.

1:10.3

The day I'm fact-checking Dr. Kurt Thompson is a rough day.

1:14.8

It's a rough day for all of us.

1:16.6

Listen.

1:17.2

Okay.

1:17.5

Walk a mile in my shoes.

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