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Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public conversations regarding the realities of racial division and inequalities have surged in recent years, so has the public outcry to work toward the long-awaited healing of these wounds.

But American Christianity, with its tendency to view the ministry of reconciliation as its sole response to racial injustice, and its isolation from those who labor most diligently to address these things, is underequipped to offer solutions. Because of this, the church needs a new perspective on its responsibility for the deep racial brokenness at the heart of American culture and on what it can do to repair that brokenness.

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.

Index:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Derek Chauvin Trial Verdict
02:39 Terminology: Reparations & White Supremacy
06:04 Concerns When Writing "Reparations"
09:11 Being an Ally & Supporting Marginalized Communities
12:51 Reasons Why Christian Debate Reparations
17:19 Ways Pastors Can Address Systemic Sins at Church
23:18 Christian Leader Responses to "Reparations" Book
27:24 Empathic Ways to Discuss "Reparations" at Church
29:08 White Supremacy as a Cultural Disorder
30:34 The Theft of White Supremacy & Reparations
33:57 The Good Samaritan & Reparations
36:21 Critics to Reparations
41:01 Talking to Kids About Race & Racism

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