S8 Ep874: Race, Multiethnic Churches, and Slavery in the Bible: Dr. Dennis Edwards

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this invigorating conversation, Dr. Edwards discusses his views on race in the church, the pros and cons of how the church has handled this topic over the last year, and his mixed views on multi-ethnic churches. We then get into a discussion about slavery in the Bible and answer some difficult questions about a difficult topic.

Dr. Edwards has long been inspired with a hunger to understand scripture. Growing up in NYC, Dr. Edwards attended a storefront church whose pastor was an earnest, faithful, and dedicated spiritual leader. After attending seminary, his desire to better understand scripture continued. Dr. Edwards says, “I pursued my PhD largely in an effort to quench my thirst for enlightenment and understanding of God’s Word.”

Ordained through the Evangelical Covenant Church, Dr. Edwards has diverse ministry experiences as a church planter and pastor in Brooklyn, Minneapolis, and Washington D.C. Dr. Edwards received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, an

MDiv (Urban Ministry) from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, an MA and a PhD in Biblical Studies from Catholic University of America. Dr. Edwards currently serves as Associate Professor of New Testament at Northpark Theological Seminary.

https://www.northpark.edu/faculty-staff-directory/dennis-edwards/

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I have on the show today,
0:04.1	my friend Dr. Dennis Edwards. Dr. Edwards is associate professor of New Testament at North Park
0:11.2	seminary. He has a BS in chemical engineering from Cornell University and MDiv in urban
0:16.8	ministry from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and MA in biblical studies from the Catholic
0:21.4	University of America and a PhD in biblical studies from Catholic University of America. Dennis
0:27.5	has been a church planter, a pastor in many different settings is a Bible scholar and as you will see
0:35.5	he's just an incredibly wise, humble, passionate man of God and I met Dennis a few years ago at a
0:44.4	conference that I was speaking at kind of a small gathering. I met him in passing and I've been
0:48.9	following him since then and Dennis is just he's one of the more well-respected Christian scholars
0:56.9	in America. Anybody that knows Dennis speaks off the charts so highly of him. I feel like I hear
1:02.9	his name everywhere when I talk to people and they're like, hey, do you know Dennis Edwards? I'm like,
1:06.9	well, I kind of know him. I'm not sure if he knows me, but I have met him a couple of times, so I was
1:12.1	so excited when he said he was willing to come on this podcast. We had a wonderful conversation
1:16.8	about race, race relations, slavery in the Bible. That was kind of the main thing I wanted to have
1:22.6	him on to talk about. He's written articles on slavery in the Bible. How do we understand
1:27.6	slavery in the Bible? And we got there. It took us a while to get there because we talked a lot
1:32.0	about just ministry and the church and race relations and multi-ethnicity in the church and so on
1:39.3	and so forth. So I'm very excited for you to listen to this conversation. It was a really, really
1:44.0	good one. If you want to support the show, you can go to patreon.com forward slash theology
1:48.6	and the raw support to show for as little as five bucks a month, all of the info is in the show
1:52.4	notes. All right, let's get to know the one and only Dennis Edwards.
2:12.8	Hi, hey friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I'm here with
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