This is the Allender Center podcast, and I'm Dan Allender.

And today, Rachel Clinton, Wendell Moss, and Michael Thornhill will finish our two-part series on Black Panther.

This movie is more than a Marvel comic.

It is a movie that portrays black actors as more than a

sidekick, a thug, or someone in need. It is grossed over 631 million in the U.S. and

over a billion worldwide. It is the fifth highest grossing movie in the United States.

Way to go, Wakanda. Rachel, Wendell, and Michael invite you to consider what this movie has stirred in so many people.

Well, hi everybody. It's Rachel Clinton here again with my friends Wendell Moss and Michael Thornhill.

And we're going to conclude our conversation on Black Panther while also owning there is no

conclusion that could possibly happen in 20 minutes.

So we'll see if more conversations come down the road. But as you may recall

from last week, you know, a robust conversation that we had in a hotel lobby about this film

in the first 20 minutes of kind of greeting each other led to a desire to talk more about this film.

And as a part of the Islander Center,

we really do believe that stories matter,

and all good stories have something to teach us,

have something to reveal about the character of God,

have something to reveal about who we are in our identity.

Obviously, this is a story that has very clear themes of race and trauma and equity and resources and

colonialism and what happens when all these things are playing out and fathers and brothers

and relational dynamics.

And we did spend some time in the last episode, introducing you to some of the main characters that we'll be talking about in this episode.

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