EmmanuelThomas Podcast Wayne Credle and Jacob Settle

Using the controversial Netflix film, "Cuties" as a backdrop, Jake and Wayne discuss the "in your face" culture that currently permeates our society. Is our story for everyone? Should there be a limit to the things we share or should we just let it all hang out? Jake and Wayne engage this conversation from a Mental Health and Pastoral perspective. Wayne also surprises Jake with quite a story.

This episode focuses on the outcry of African-Americans in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis. Wayne parses out the connotations of "rioting" verses "uprising" and speaks to looting as a result of protest. Jake offers ways that white people can step into the responsibility of engaging  other white people around the realities of racial injustice and discrimination. Jake also discusses the idolization of white allyship versus the power of authentic presence around racial issues. Lastly, this episode places in tension the irony of Pentecost coinciding with Floyd's assassination and the cost associated with truly being a Christian witness. 

In this episode, we wrestle with Coronavirus and its implications on mental health, faith, race, and society. We also work through the difficulties involved with knowing when to rest and what it "may" mean spiritually when tragedy hits. 

This episode speaks about millennial culture and it's relationship with the church and the world at large. 

This is the initial episode of the EmmanuelThomas Podcast, introducing ourselves and speaking on the death of the late Kobe Bryant. 

What it does it mean to be a white man in America? What does it mean to be a black man in America? This episode explores the world and the challenges of masculinity from a religous and cultural perspective. Check us out!