Art From Debris: Race, Culture, and Friendship

We live incarnationally different based on ethnicity. What are the differences while maintaining a unity with Jesus?

In this episode we unpack how you can counter your natural cultural biases by equipping others with defeaters.

In this episode we discuss when and how it's appropriate to affirm white people.

Is justice is achieved step by step or do we need to flip the switch of revolution? How can incrementalist and revolutionaries be friends in the work of biblical justice?

In this episode we talk about when, if ever, people of color should apologize in cross cultural relationships.

Ministry leadership is powerfully complicated for people of color. How can you lead across cultures while remaining true to your culture?

Part 2 continues our discussion of how we can build new racial narratives for a new church.

Slavery became Jim Crow. Jim Crow became the New Jim Crow. Can anything really change without addressing the narrative that people of color are inferior? This is part one of a two part series.

We've seen what the majority of discipleship has produced in America and it's not pretty. What if we shift the source of discipleship material from the majority and powerful to the marginalized?

"You're racist....No I'm not." Sound familiar? We consult with a live question about what is a racist and how to use this powerful word.

In speaking truth to power and bringing a corrective challenge to injustice how do we engage with kingdom grace and humility. How can we call out the wrong while also being sober about how we participate in other wrongs?

In part two we continue our discussion on how multiple touch points across culture can increase the depth of our empathetic connections. Part two of a two part series.

Just because you have one friend across cultures doesn't mean you're in the family. How do we approach new relationships without generalizing to entire people groups? Part one of a two part series.

Back from Manila with antidotes for what ails the American soul. What healing might occur if Black was treated as beautiful and Native Americans were honored as the true Americans?

In this episode, we unpack how we prepare our children to engage with a racialized world.

In this episode, Brad and Jeremy continue their discussion on intersectionality, highlighting how anti-racists might also be sexist and participants in other systemic oppression. Part two of a two-part episode.

In this episode, Brad and Jeremy discuss power dynamics in racial relationships and how they intersect with other social discrimination. How do we make disciples to engage every form of injustice? Part one of a two-part episode.

In this episode we unpack how ethnic specific spaces can bring deep healing without creating division.

In this episode we look at the way we interact and deliver the gospel with cultural biases and discuss how to step toward disentanglement.

In this episode we talk about the cultural misunderstanding and limitations to the word "woke".

Jeremy and Brad continue their conversation on racial reconciliation and dive into fun stories about the origin of their relationship.

In the pilot episode of Art From Debris, old friends and campus ministers Jeremy Stephens and Brad Everett kick off a conversation on race and culture in modern America through the lens of the Gospel. What does it mean to reconcile? Why is it important to understand one another's stories? This is part one of a two-part episode.