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Changing Truth - An Ever Evolving Journey Irenicast - A Progressive Christian Podcast
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Our truth series is wrapped up this week with a deeply personal conversation on changing truth. Everyone on this show, and the vast majority of our listeners, have experienced a truth change. Many times we refer to that process as deconstruction. A term that reflects a reality we all share, but that falls short of communicating the depth and heartache involved in the process of changing truth.
Bonnie starts the conversation with the question, “What was it like for you to wake up one morning and know you were not operating with the same set of beliefs?” The answers get personal and lead to an unexpected reminder of the privilege inherent in questioning truth. Race, gender and sexuality can be a huge catalyst for how traumatic a truth revision can be.
As the group continues to share it also becomes apparent that representation in our education into new truths is paramount. It helps us see ourselves so that we can better see others. We are not on this journey alone.
This episode closes with a round of Famous Christians for 100. Each host has provided a quote from a ‘famous’ ‘christian’ and the others need to tap their vast knowledge of Christian culture to guess the source.
Conversation on Changing Truth (00:04:23)
Famous Christians for 100 Segment (01:08:15)
ANTI-RACIST RESOURCE LIST
This list is an evolving anti-racist resource list, and consists of material we have found helpful in our journey into anti-racism. To view the update list please visit Irenicast.com/AntiRacist. To recommend resources to be added to the list please email us at podcast@irenicast.com.
In addition to the informational resources below, you can also go to Ways You Can Help for information on real steps you can take to make a difference wherever you are.
Books
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone Race Matters by Cornel West Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander What Movies Teach About Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure, and Entitlement by Roslyn M. Satchel Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff Two Mrs. Gibsons by Toyomi Igus People to Follow
Austin Channing Brown (Author) Tori Williams Douglass (Anti-Racist Educator, Founder of White Homework) Andre Henry (Musician, Artist, Podcaster, Activist) Nikole Hannah-Jones (Journalist) Podcasts
Hope & Hard Pills Intersectionality Matters Code Switch Truth’s Table Films/Videos
The Next Question (Web Series) 13th (2016 Netflix Documentary) Blindspotting (2018 Film) Get Out (2017 Film) Organizations
Black Lives Matter Showing Up For Racial Justice Ida B. Wells Society Understanding Race Curriculum
White Privilege Curriculum from the UCC Articles & Other Resource Lists
An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. (New York Times Article) Educate Yourself: An Essential Anti-Racism Reading Guide by Dan Ahwa (Viva Article) None of the links on this list will use our Amazon Affiliate links. If there is anything on this list to be purchased they will be linked to POC owned businesses or to the author’s own site.
FACEBOOK LIVE EVENTS
During quarantime, we are offering additional ways to connect via Facebook Live. You can fin
Our truth series is wrapped up this week with a deeply personal conversation on changing truth. Everyone on this show, and the vast majority of our listeners, have experienced a truth change. Many times we refer to that process as deconstruction. A term that reflects a reality we all share, but that falls short of communicating the depth and heartache involved in the process of changing truth.
Bonnie starts the conversation with the question, “What was it like for you to wake up one morning and know you were not operating with the same set of beliefs?” The answers get personal and lead to an unexpected reminder of the privilege inherent in questioning truth. Race, gender and sexuality can be a huge catalyst for how traumatic a truth revision can be.
As the group continues to share it also becomes apparent that representation in our education into new truths is paramount. It helps us see ourselves so that we can better see others. We are not on this journey alone.
This episode closes with a round of Famous Christians for 100. Each host has provided a quote from a ‘famous’ ‘christian’ and the others need to tap their vast knowledge of Christian culture to guess the source.
Conversation on Changing Truth (00:04:23)
Famous Christians for 100 Segment (01:08:15)
ANTI-RACIST RESOURCE LIST
This list is an evolving anti-racist resource list, and consists of material we have found helpful in our journey into anti-racism. To view the update list please visit Irenicast.com/AntiRacist. To recommend resources to be added to the list please email us at podcast@irenicast.com.
In addition to the informational resources below, you can also go to Ways You Can Help for information on real steps you can take to make a difference wherever you are.
Books
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone Race Matters by Cornel West Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander What Movies Teach About Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure, and Entitlement by Roslyn M. Satchel Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by Lenny Duncan Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff Two Mrs. Gibsons by Toyomi Igus People to Follow
Austin Channing Brown (Author) Tori Williams Douglass (Anti-Racist Educator, Founder of White Homework) Andre Henry (Musician, Artist, Podcaster, Activist) Nikole Hannah-Jones (Journalist) Podcasts
Hope & Hard Pills Intersectionality Matters Code Switch Truth’s Table Films/Videos
The Next Question (Web Series) 13th (2016 Netflix Documentary) Blindspotting (2018 Film) Get Out (2017 Film) Organizations
Black Lives Matter Showing Up For Racial Justice Ida B. Wells Society Understanding Race Curriculum
White Privilege Curriculum from the UCC Articles & Other Resource Lists
An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. (New York Times Article) Educate Yourself: An Essential Anti-Racism Reading Guide by Dan Ahwa (Viva Article) None of the links on this list will use our Amazon Affiliate links. If there is anything on this list to be purchased they will be linked to POC owned businesses or to the author’s own site.
FACEBOOK LIVE EVENTS
During quarantime, we are offering additional ways to connect via Facebook Live. You can fin
1 hr 20 min