Hello, friends and enemies. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the

Rob. My guest today is Dr. Vincent Becoat, who is a professor of theology director

of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College, where he's been since

the year 2000. Dr. Becoat is an accomplished theologian and ethicist writer. He's published

the political disciple, a public theology, a public life, and the spirit in public

theology, appropriating the legacy of Abraham Kuiper. He's contributed to various books,

including black scholars in white spaces, aliens in the Promised Land, why minority

leadership is overlooked in white Christian churches and institutions, and oh, there's

another one here that's not listed in my notes, but he's written several other books,

many scholarly articles, and is somebody who I've known from a distance and not known him,

but just known out of him. He's a well-known name and evangelical scholarship, and I'm so excited

that he agreed to come on the show to talk about what it is to be a Christian disciple in our

public arena, how to maintain our allegiance to the Kingdom of God, while participating in

in being an agent of justice in society. So please welcome to the show. First time,

he wanted only Dr. Vincent Becoat.

All right, I'm here with Dr. Vincent, or Vincent, I'm Becoat, he's your last name,

but I didn't clarify what you prefer, Vince or Vincent. Both are fine. Okay, I'll go with Vince.

I'll go with Vince. Thanks so much for being on the podcast. I mean, you're an established

theologian, ethicist, public theologian. For people who have been in evangelical scholarship circles,

your name's very well known. So it's an honor for you to be on the podcast. Thanks for taking

the time to do this. I appreciate participating. And so you have written on some pretty

important would be an understatement themes in Christianity involving politics and race and

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