Podcasts about reparations a christian call

Gregory Thompson's Peace Talks episode is both hard-hitting and thoughtful. He tackles why the dinner table is the BEST place for political conversations and why the church is the best place for cultivating the moral skill of discernment needed for such topics. Don't miss this one!Gregory Thompson is a writer, artist, cook, and creative leader who works at the intersection of contemplative, the critical, and the convivial. He currently serves as Co-Founder and Creative Director of Voices Underground, a team of scholars, artists, and activists devoted to racial healing through storytelling. He is author of The Welcome Table, a column on Hospitality and Culture at Comment Magazine, of Blood From the Ground: Racial Healing and Public Memory (forthcoming), and co-author of the award-winning Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Virginia, and can most likely be found in the kitchen.» Subscribe to PEACE TALKS Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peace-talks/id1590168616About the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace:Justice and peace come from the inside out—from the overflow of a transformed heart. This belief led our founder, Bishop Todd Hunter, to start the Center for Formation, Justice and Peace in 2021. The Center brings together a diverse, interdenominational community of people who want to be formed in love to heal a broken world. Because “religion” is often part of the problem, we've created a brave, Jesus-centered space for dialogue, questioning, creating, and exploration. PEACE TALKS introduces you to women and men who are working to undo oppression, leading to lives of deeper peace for all.*Connect with The Center Online!*Visit The Center's Website: https://centerfjp.orgFollow The Center on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centerfjpFollow The Center on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CenterFjpFollow The Center on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centerfjp/Support the show

This week Matt sits down with Pastor Derek and Pastor Nathaniel as they discuss how God addresses slavery in scripture. They continue with a discussion on whether or not Christians should support reparations. They wrap up with a quick chat regarding Christians who do not celebrate Easter.   Check us out on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLBciKt0LaE   Tim Keller's Sermon touching upon Slavery: https://gospelinlife.com/sermon/work-and-family/   PCA Report on Racial and Ethnic Reconciliation: https://resources.pcamna.org/resource/report-on-racial-and-ethnic-reconciliation/   "For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church in America" https://www.wtsbooks.com/products/for-a-continuing-church-the-roots-of-the-presbyterian-church-in-america-sean-michael-lucas-9781629951065?variant=9784617107503   "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair" https://www.amazon.com/Reparations-Christian-Call-Repentance-Repair/dp/1587435985   Check out the most recent sermon, "Of Human or Divine Origins?" https://youtu.be/3Zhw7IeSM_o?t=1759  

This week, we share a Soundings Seminar conversation with Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson, the authors of the 2021 book Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Renewal.  Duke and Greg lay out how their book can help American Christians *See* the pervasive sin of white supremacy through our history, *Own* the need for restoration of wealth, truth, and power stolen from black communities, and embrace the biblical call to *Repair* our communities.  They explain how and why the church is uniquely equipped to take up the complex question of reparations, and they share candidly about the roots of many Christians' resistance to taking this question seriously.It is a challenging and stimulating conversation, and we hope you'll be blessed by it!Support the show

In this episode Josh opens up a conversation with Greg Thompson about his book co-authored with Duke Kwon, Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance & Repair. Yet in the process of attempting to create a conversation about healing the ravages of white supremacy, Josh is confronted with his own personal instability. Does he belong to himself enough to be able to steward for others conversations about healing toward reconciliation? How is it that sharing our weaknesses with each other allows us to belong to each other? This episode is an introduction to Greg, his movement out of pastoral leadership into Voices Underground, an organization committed to erecting a national monument to the Underground Railroad. Greg describes how his mission that lies at the intersection of the political, contemplative, and convivial led him to go to culinary school open a restaurant and a cocktail bar. In part II of this conversation, Josh and Greg go more deeply into the meaning and practice of reparations. Please visit: https://www.vuproject.org For more information on the Invitation School of Prayer: https://theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer Subscribe to Invitation updates: https://theinvitationcenter.org/subscribe

The R Word begins its second season with this live book discussion with Greg Thompson, co-author of Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair, at the Fayetteville Public Library. Greg speaks to a live audience about his book. Thompson begins with a discussion of the major themes of his book, particularly about how reparations are a return of the threefold thefts of truth, wealth, and power from African Americans in this country. This is followed by a Q&A session with Dr. Caree Banton and Dr. Trisha Posey, and questions from the audience.

The R Word, a podcast hosted by Lowell Taylor that explores reparations' role in racial, social, and economic justice and the Christian Church, is back. Lowell gives us a preview of what to expect in season 2 of the podcast and a preview of the R Word's latest book discussion on Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair by Greg Thompson and Duke Kwon.

Episode 36: #GriefAND White Supremacy featuring Gregory Thompson. Gregory is a pastor, scholar, writer, producer, and amateur cook whose work focuses on racial healing in America. He currently serves as Executive Director of Voices Underground, an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad in Southeast Pennsylvania. Dr. Thompson is also a Research Fellow in African American Cultural Heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), the Visiting Theologian for Mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington DC, and the co-author (with Duke Kwon) of Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair (Brazos Press, April 2021). He received his PhD in the Theology, Ethics, and Culture program in the University of Virginia's department of Religious Studies, where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther King, Jr.

In Episode 2 of The R Word, Lowell talks with Greg Thompson, co-author of Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. Greg discusses why reparations are necessary in racial, social and economic justice and healing and why the Christian Church plays an important role in leading the way.

We are now hearing and reading about a subject that has been thrown in the back of the closet for decades. The question before us is: Should the descendants of slaves be compensated for the invaluable contributions that their ancestors made to the growth of the USA in our formative years? The various positions taken on this issue come from the arenas of politics, social justice and economics. Here we address it from the standpoint of religion. Our guest for these episodes from 2021 is Gregory Thompson, the author of the book "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance & Prayer"

Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson join Shane Claiborne to discuss reparations, racism, and the church's responsibility today.   Follow Duke Kwon on Instagram! Go to @dukekwondc Follow Gregory Thompson on Instagram! Go to @gregory__thompson For more information on RLC, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org  Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians Instagram: @RedLetterXians Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne

Vanessa & Bishop Todd could have talked to hours to this month's guest (and good friend) Greg Thompson. He is a scholar, writer, and artist of diverse creative background whose work focuses on race, religion, hospitality, and democracy in the United States. He serves as Executive Director of Voices Underground, an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia; Research Fellow in African American Heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU); and as Creative Director of Star & Lantern, a new Cocktail Bar in Kennett Square, PA whose story centers in the African American freedom struggle and the Underground Railroad (Opening June 2021). He is the Co-Creator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop based musical about the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike, Co-Author (with Reverend Duke Kwon) of Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair and is currently writing a work that explores the role of love in the work of Martin Luther King.  He holds an M.A. and PhD from the University of Virginia.Twitter: @_wgthompasonVuproject.orgSupport the show

Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. In Exodus 12:35-36 God plunders the Egyptian people who turn over their financial and material wealth to the Israelite people as they leave Egypt. It's a staggering redistribution of wealth to a people group who had been oppressed and enslaved for hundreds of years. These verses create the framework for our conversation that starts in Exodus and then moves to Leviticus, Ezra, and the Gospel of Luke, all focused on the biblical and theological concept of reparations, which is the work of restoring that which has been broken and returning that which has been stolen. *Note: Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson's work, Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair, as well as Duke Kwon's talk, “Race Reparations” at the 2018 Q Conference were resources used in the researching of this sermon and we commend them to you.

Book interview with Duke Kwon for “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair”

An interview with Duke Kwon for “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair”

Randy and Kyle talk with Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson about their recent book Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair, in which they grapple with the church's responsibility to repair the great damage done to African Americans by the history--and ongoing reality--of racism in the United States. Duke and Greg are forceful and eloquent and refreshingly hopeful. It's an important conversation that will hopefully spawn many others.The letter discussed at the beginning of the episode can be found here: https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/letter-jourdon-anderson-freedman-writes-former-master.The whiskey featured in this episode is Traverse City Straight Bourbon.Support the show

Earlier this year, Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon released their book “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair,” in which they make a biblical argument for the American church's responsibility to repay the debts inflicted upon black communities by systemic racism and white supremacy. In this moment of political division and evangelical panic over Critical Race Theory, it's not surprising that responses to the book have been polarized. One of the most negative and widely read reviews came from theologian Kevin DeYoung who said “Reparations” is “clearly not shaped by the gospel.” Thompson and Kwon then wrote a lengthy and detailed response to DeYoung's review. (Links to both are posted below.) In this episode, Thompson talks to Skye about the debate, criticism of his book, and what the white evangelical response to racism reveals about its theology, mission, and blind spots. Phil and Christian then join Skye to discuss Thompson's interview, and Christian shares a personal story to remind us all that change is possible. “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair” - https://www.amazon.com/Reparations-Christian-Call-Repentance-Repair/dp/1587434504/ Kevin DeYoung Review - https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/reparations-a-critical-theological-review/ Review Response 1 - https://thefrontporch.org/2021/07/sanctifying-the-status-quo-a-response-to-reverend-kevin-deyoung/ Review Response 2 - https://thefrontporch.org/2021/07/distinctively-christian-an-additional-response-to-reverend-kevin-deyoung/ Other resources referenced: https://www.amazon.com/Sum-Us-Everyone-Prosper-Together/dp/0525509569 https://religionnews.com/2021/07/12/dont-believe-in-systemic-racism-lets-talk-about-the-sexual-revolution-charlottesville-robert-e-lee/

This is part seven of our series, "White People Talking to White People About Racism," a reading of Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance & Repair by Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson. In this episode the Rev Julie Van Til helps Josh unpack chapter three. Subscribe to the Invitation: theinvitationcenter.org/subscribe About our summer podcast series: theinvitationcenter.org/reparations-b…ok-discussion Reparations Group Discussion Guide: theinvitationcenter.org/s/Reparations…ion-Guide.pdf To learn more about our formation schools... The School of Prayer: theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer The School of Contemplative Listening: theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-con…e-listening-1

A fault line in American evangelical Christianity is increasingly apparent. As Exhibit A and B, consider two articles of the past three months: one ‘Reparations: A Critical Theological Review' published by Kevin DeYoung at The Gospel Coalition on April 22, 2021 dealing with the book ‘Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Renewal' by Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson; the other, ‘Sanctifying the Status Quo: A Response to Reverend Kevin DeYoung' by the authors of that book DeYoung reviewed and critiqued, published July 19, 2021 at The Front Porch. Wrapping up an examination of these two pieces, let us turn our attention more fully to the response of Kwon and Thompson to DeYoung and see it for what it is. While assuring us all that they do not believe DeYoung to be in any way, shape, or form a racist or White Supremacist, the authors nevertheless also insist over nearly 10,000-words that DeYoung is doing the dirty work of White Supremacy. This they do by attacking his methodology as being White-centric, excluding black voices, minimizing White Supremacy, and prioritizing White comfort. The argumentum ad hominem is strong with this one. And it has an all-too-familiar feel to it for me which I recognize from many painful interactions with old friends and family who have embraced Woke ideology, particularly when wedded with a form of Christianity. Smiling, friendly, and complimentary, they nevertheless bury the rhetorical knife deep between the ribs repeatedly and without mercy as they carry out their revolutionary work. In sum, Kwon and Thompson demonstrate in their response that the truth is malleable. We should all come away from their piece with a renewed appreciation for the importance of Western civilization even as they make an all-out assault on its foundations. Like sappers digging subterranean tunnels to plant petards beneath a besieged city's walls, these two pastors need to be called out as the traitors in our midst they truly are. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

Before we can actively be a part of healing the ravages of white supremacy, we have to learn to care, to be invested. This whole series, "White People Talking to White People About Racism, A Reading of Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair by Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson," this is our chance to slow down, listen, pray, and grow in our capacity to care for the work of healing before us. In this episode Josh shares his conversation with Latorious Willis who recently was recently released from prison. Here we celebrate Latorious' release, his spiritual friendship with Josh, and to celebrate all the other brothers who are still behind bars. We hope this episode offers you a glimpse into the goodness of learning to love the disinherited, the marginalized who are often ignored--or in Howard Thurman's vocabulary: the person who back is against the wall. A short video of this reunion between Josh and Latorious can be found on our website: https://tinyurl.com/fd454bw2 Subscribe to the Invitation: theinvitationcenter.org/subscribe About our summer podcast series: theinvitationcenter.org/reparations-b…ok-discussion Reparations Group Discussion Guide: theinvitationcenter.org/s/Reparations…ion-Guide.pdf To learn more about our formation schools... The School of Prayer: theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer The School of Contemplative Listening: theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-con…e-listening-1

The Rev Bryan Berghoef helps Josh unpack "Seeing the Reality of White Supremacy," chapter 3 of Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance & Repair. We are releasing this especially on the occasion of the 4th of July weekend because chapter two begins with Fredrick Douglas' speech on the 4th of July, 1852. Bryan Berghoef is someone Josh has been excited to get to know for some time. He is an American politician, pastor and author who was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in the 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan for the Second District.[1] He is also a pastor of the Holland United Church of Christ, a UCC church in Holland, Michigan, which he founded in 2016. The gift of this conversation with Bryan is a hope-filled demonstration of ecumenical breadth of the body of Christ that is bears witness to the love of God that will heal the ravages of white supremacy. Subscribe to the Invitation: theinvitationcenter.org/subscribe About our summer podcast series: theinvitationcenter.org/reparations-b…ok-discussion Reparations Group Discussion Guide: theinvitationcenter.org/s/Reparations…ion-Guide.pdf To learn more about our formation schools... The School of Prayer: theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer The School of Contemplative Listening: theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-con…e-listening-1

On today's episode, Ryan and Colton talk through reparations. Are reparations biblical? Is it even possible to think of modern day reparations? Are white people to be punished for the sins of their ancestors?   As always, you can follow us on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/bnwchurch/ . Also, feel free to reach out to us at bnwchurch@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you!   Article Mentioned by Thabiti Anyabwile -  https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/thabiti-anyabwile/reparations-are-biblical/   Book Mentioned is “Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair” by Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson   * All views expressed in this podcast are those of Ryan Broushet and Colton Meo and do not reflect on the organizations, churches, and companies they are a part of *   Theme Music: “Dream Catcher” provided by Kevin MacLeod

As Christians, what responsibility do we have if we know a crime has been committed? Specifically, what about a theft? Authors and pastors Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson address those questions in their new book, Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. Pastor Kwon joined me for this episode of the podcast to talk … Continue reading Episode 097 – Duke Kwon

We talked with Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson about their new book Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair, which explores reparations from a biblical/Christian perspective. Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural […] The post Duke Kwon & Greg Thompson: The Case for Race Reparations appeared first on Gravity Leadership.

In Luke 10:30-37 Jesus finishes the story about "The Good Samaritan " saying “go and do likewise.” What does that look like today?  Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson talked about this very thing in their book "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair".Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural community in Washington, DC. Kwon is active in public conversations around race, equity, and racial repair in the American church, and he lectures on these topics around the country. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Witness.Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is a pastor, scholar, artist, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity in the United States. He serves as executive director of Voices Underground (an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia), research fellow in African American heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), and visiting theologian for mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington, DC. He is also the cocreator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop-based musical about the 1968 sanitation workers' strike. Thompson lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Every cause produces an effect. Drop a pebble in a pond (cause) and small ripples form and travel outward (effect). Likewise, ideas are causes that produce effects. Good ideas produce good effects and bad ideas bad effects. Big, unbiblical ideas are not like dropping a pebble into a pond but rather a nuclear bomb on a society—widespread destruction and even death are the effects. Critical Race Theory, the idea that White Supremacy is the dominating operating principle in America oppressing all manner of oppressed groups (“people of color”, women, etc.), is the new Big Idea in America that is being imbibed and perpetuated by government, corporations, and the Left. The Evangelical Church is dallying with it as well. The idea that America and the church are systemically racist leads to an effect—restitution and reparations must be made. “Equity” (equal outcomes, not equal opportunity) must be enforced. This is the thesis of a new book entitled, Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Renewal (Brazos Press) by Duke Kwon, a PCA pastor in Washington, DC, and Greg Thompson, a former PCA pastor. Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in North Carolina, just wrote a lengthy review of the book and its call for reparations from Whites to Blacks. We'll discuss Critical Race Theory (the ideological cause) and reparations (the demanded effect) this weekend on The Christian Worldview. It's important for Christians to understand this worldview that is taking hold on our country and the church.

Are you having a hard time describing how you're feeling these days? Depressed is too strong a word, but unmotivated isn't strong enough. That general blah feeling or phase has a name–languishing. And my friend and fellow mom of 5, Megan Hyatt Miller is here to tell us what we can do about it! Languishing is like the neglected middle child of mental health, but a lot of people experience it. Especially now that we're coming out of a pandemic and coping with stress in ways we've never had to before. That's why I'm delighted Megan wanted to tackle this topic with me, which isn't surprising because her work is all about helping us be our best selves.  Megan Hyatt Miller is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Michael Hyatt & Company and the co-host of the popular business podcast, Lead to Win. And she just co-authored Win at Work and Succeed at Life with her dad Michael Hyatt. This book is all about freeing yourself from the cult of overwork, so you can bet she shares some great advice and techniques about how to get back to ourselves.  Tune in and hear all about: Where to start when exercise and nutrition isn't helping you feel like yourself anymore. Creating a culture of double win -- instead of choosing either “I've got to hustle” or “I need a break!” Megan-approved practical tools to allow us to feel better and get our groove back. Favorite quotes: 1. If you're coming out of 2020 like most people that I've talked to, with your tires on fire, you know you just sort of feel like we're running on fumes and self care is all out of whack. Probably the place to start is not exercise and nutrition. As important as those things are and we talked about that some in the book, but the place to start really is with rest. 2. We've been going and going and going and using all of our reserves and just regular life has taken so much more energy that we are chronically exhausted and chronically depleted and we don't even know it right now. 3. The temporary has a way of becoming permanent, and then it starts to take a toll on our health, our mental well being, you know, and health, and our most important relationships, and if we don't catch it in time, then we end up in a situation where we have regret. 4.Work and life don't actually have to be in opposition to each other, they actually can be mutually reinforcing and supportive of one another and there's not magic to it, there is a process. 5. There isn't enough time to do everything but there is enough time to do the most important things. In this episode I answer this question: What does business coaching entail and how do I know if it's right for me? (20:21) Great things we discussed:  1. Megan Hyatt-Miller 2. Win at Work and Succeed at Life 3. Every Little Kiss 4.  Miss Scarlet and the Duke 5. Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair6. KF49 Face Mask 7. Newsies 8.Standing Strong Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli

With the news media now seriously considering possible evidence that COVID may have come from a lab, the Daily Wire's Ben Johnson talks about how media narratives can get in the way of journalism.  Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson discuss their book "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair."

With the news media now seriously considering possible evidence that COVID may have come from a lab, the Daily Wire's Ben Johnson talks about how media narratives can get in the way of journalism.  Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson discuss their book "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair."

Pastors Duke L. Kwon and Dr. Gregory Thompson build a historical and theological case for reparations -- and address the various thefts of white supremacy that continue to hurt our Black communities in their latest book: Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. In this podcast episode, Duke L. Kwon and Dr. Gregory Thompson talk about why they need to write a theological case for reparations, why it's important to support and love hurting communities, reasons why Christians debate the reparations issue, ways church leaders and pastors can properly address systemic sins at church, ways to address racial justice issues and reparations in church meetings, and how white supremacy is a theft of truth, power, and wealth, ways to talk with children about racism, and what the parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us about love and reparations. You can catch the YouTube video of this conversation here: http://www.mikedelgado.org/podcast/reparations/ Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural community in Washington, DC. Kwon is active in public conversations around race, equity, and racial repair in the American church, and he lectures on these topics around the country. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Witness. Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is a pastor, scholar, artist, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity in the United States. He serves as executive director of Voices Underground (an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia), research fellow in African American heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), and visiting theologian for mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington, DC. He is also the co-creator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop-based musical about the 1968 sanitation workers' strike. Thompson lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

How can we heal the racial divide in our time? Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson argue the answer lies in reparations.  What insights might the Bible offer?  Gabe talks with the pair about there new book,  "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair."

“We are not establishing some new morality that is an over-realized understanding of heaven on earth. Reparations are love of neighbor.” - Duke Kwon Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair is a brand new book from Pastor Duke Kwon and cultural educator Gregory Thompson that’s sending shockwaves through the American church. On this timely and hotly debated topic of reparations to the African American community, Kwon and Thompson use theology and history to argue that the church has a unique moral responsibility to repair our nation’s original sin. In this episode of the Praise Hands Podcast, hear Duke and Gregory talk through: Frameworks for understanding racism, white supremacy, and reparations The church’s crucial role in developing America’s racial caste system How Christian creatives can use their repentant imaginations to create change Each week on the Praise Hands Podcast, join Robby Valderrama and learn from creative, cross-cultural solutionists at the American intersection of church, race, music, and economics. Support the show at http://praisehands.com/donate.

Why should Christians in particular participate in the work of reparations? Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson, the co-authors of Reparations, talk with Amy Julia about white supremacy, the harms and thefts of centuries of racism, and the imaginative, beautiful, restoring work of reparations. (scroll down for book giveaway!)Show Notes:Duke L. Kwon is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill in Washington, DC, and Gregory Thompson is a pastor and the executive director of Voices Underground. They are the co-authors of Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair.Connect online:Twitter: @dukekwondc and @_wgthompsonInstagram: @dukekwondc, @gregory__thompson, @reparations_projectVoices Underground: vuproject.orgOn the Podcast: Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and RepairW. E. B. Du BoisLove Is Stronger Than Fear episode with David SwansonThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum#justicedepositsReparations in Tulsa, OKHBO: True Justice“If we understand racism for what it really is, the harms go far beyond personal relationships. They go deeper, they go longer, they go wider, and for centuries.” - Duke“We are calling people not simply as white people to engage in the work of reparations...We’re calling the Christian church—everyone who bears not whiteness per se but everyone who bears the name of Christ—because the Church itself as a community, as a corporate entity, was complicit in, and actually active perpetrators of, the evils of white supremacy.” Duke"Could it be true that our theological tradition actually invites us to [the work of reparations]?” Greg“…we invented education, markets, city planning—I’m not worried about our creativity once we start asking questions. What I’m worried about is our resistance to asking questions.” GregBOOK GIVEAWAYTo enter to win a copy of Reparations:1. Share this podcast episode on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, and be sure to tag Amy Julia Becker when you share.OR2. Go to this episode post on Amy Julia's Instagram and tag a friend in the post's comments.Shipping to continental US addresses only__Thank you to Breaking Ground, the co-host for this podcast.Head, Heart, Hands, Season 4 of the Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast, is based on my e-book Head, Heart, Hands, which accompanies White Picket Fences. Check out free RESOURCES that are designed to help you respond to the harm of privilege and join in the work of healing. Learn more about my writing and speaking at amyjuliabecker.com.

How can we heal the racial divide in our time? Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson argue the answer lies in reparations.  What insights might the Bible offer?  Gabe talks with the pair about there new book,  "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair."

Duke Kwon is a minister in Washington, D.C., at Grace Meridian Hill, which is part of the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). Gregory Thompson pastored for 20 years — most of it in Charlottesville, Va. — in that same denomination, which is decidedly on the conservative side of American Christianity in terms of its theology. The PCA itself was formed by congregations who objected to the civil rights movement.And yet these two men, one an Asian-American and the other a Caucasian-American, have written a book called "“Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair.”And one of their primary points is that they don’t think the place to start is with questions like, “How much?,” “Who gets them?” and, “Who has to pay them?”Thompson said he and Kwon wrote the book for two reasons: they want the American Christian church — including the conservative and mostly white evangelical wing in which they have pastored — to help lead and shape the debate over reparations, and they also know that the conservative church is still broadly resistant and often fiercely hostile to even considering the topic, even as the Episcopal church and other more mainline denominations are grappling with it and in some cases embracing it.It’s a tall order within conservative, largely white evangelical Christianity. On Thursday, the first major rejoinder to their book came from a conservative evangelical pastor with a significant national following. Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor of Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina — another PCA congregation — wrote a critical review for The Gospel Coalition, a prominent evangelical website.Thompson and Kwon represent a corner of evangelicalism that parts with liberal Christians in significant ways in how it reads and interprets the Bible and in how it understands the faith’s core teachings. Yet evangelicals like Thompson and Kwan also believe that true fidelity and orthodoxy requires a much broader understanding of what the Christian gospel means than the narrow interpretation that has dominated much of conservative evangelicalism for a long time.And they argue that it's critical for Christians to grapple with this issue, not only as a matter of faithfulness to their professed doctrine, but also as a matter of credibility. The stakes, the argue, are high because many are watching and weighing their own faith in light of the church's response to this.Outro music: "Bloomsday" by Samantha Crain Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelonggame. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Greg Thompson is the Executive Director of Voices Underground, an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad,  and he is a Research Fellow in African American Cultural Heritage at Lincoln University. He joins Jeremy to discuss his recent response to Rod Dreher's new book Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, to include the notion that it imports a fear-based worldview into the Benedictine Tradition. Other issues he touches on include reparations, why many criticisms of critical theory (as well as popular conceptions of "wokeness" in the current culture and academia) are misguided, the ways in which some elements of current social movements are leaning toward illiberalism, and how the writings of W.E.B. DuBois and Martin Luther King Jr. still echo today. Send questions or comments to anchored@cltexam.com.Host Jeremy Tate Guest Greg Thompson The Return of the Cold Warrior: Reflections on Rod Dreher's Live Not By LiesWoke Preacher: Live Not by Lies is 'Dangerous'Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

We talked with Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson about their new book Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair, which explores reparations from a biblical/Christian perspective. Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural […] The post Duke Kwon & Greg Thompson: The Case for Race Reparations appeared first on Gravity Leadership.