Season 3, episode 12: the theology of listening
“A lot of our theological students are trained how to speak, to talk, to teach, to preach—but not how to listen.”
— John Jefferson Davis
What can the fractures in our identity and ancestry teach us about how to heal?
We don’t get to choose who our parents are or what familial or ancestral fractures have occurred along the way. 20-something audio storyteller Zahra and 76-year-old seminary professor John Jefferson Davis come together in this exploration of their own ancestral fractures, and what telling that story can teach us about healing the fractures outside of us.
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White by Law: The Legal Construction Of Race By Ian Henry López (Abridged Version)
Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge By Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (Excerpt)
'The Color Of Law' Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation (Linked an NPR Article/radio clip about the book)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson (Link to entire book on Archive.org)
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair By Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson (Link to excerpt of book)
“We Don't Share a Common Baseline of Facts: Barack Obama Reflects on Divisiveness in Politics.”
Song of Myself, 51 by Walt Whitman
Where Does It Hurt? Ruby Sales in On Being with Krista Tippett
Jesus and the Disinherited By Howard Thurman
The Cross and the Lynching Tree By James Cone
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