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Theologian Keri Day shares her experience as a black woman and a theologian, about the long history of racism in America, stemming from the racially inflected roots of America’s founding and emerging even from history that has been erased.

Theologian Keri Day shares her experience as a black woman and a theologian, not only of the past week, but the long history of racism in America, stemming from the racially inflected roots of America’s founding and emerging even from history that has been erased. She and Miroslav Volf discuss her whole vision of individual and social justice through the lens of Christian faith and practice. Keri also provides a gripping example of redeeming dangerous memories in the form of the 1921 Tulsa Black Wall Street Massacre.

Show Notes

  • Keri Day, Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America, and Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black feminist Perspectives.
  • Watching the events of June 2020 in the U.S. as a black woman.
  • This moment stands within a long history.
  • A theology of protest, Jesus is confronting powers.
  • Christian motivation for embracing difference.
  • We are called to be the hands and feet of Christ.
  • How the gospels have been read by different communities.
  • Breonna Taylor as an example of the diversity of those who are vulnerable to police brutality.
  • The shift in women’s incarceration.
  • The importance of interior transformation.
  • A marriage of Marx and Kierkegaard
  • Resistance begins in the interior space.
  • Confronting the fear of doing things wrong socially or theologically.
  • Retrieving and redeeming dangerous memories.
  • The Tulsa Riot of 1921 and erased history.
  • The Gospel mandate and racial justice.

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Tolerating Doubt & Ambiguity

Is your faith a house of cards? If you were wrong about one belief would the whole structure just collapse? If even one injury came to you, one instance of broken trust, would the whole castle fall? If one element was seemingly inconsistent or incompatible—would you burn down the house? This depiction of the psychology of faith is quite fragile. It falls over to even the lightest breath. But what would a flexible faith be? Resilient to even the heaviest gusts of life’s hurricanes. It would adapt and grow as a living, responsive faith. Psychologist Elizabeth Hall joins Evan Rosa to discuss the domains of psychology and theology and what it means for each to “stay in their lane”; she introduces a distinction between implicit and explicit knowledge, and identifies the social- and self-imposed pressure to know everything with certainty; we reflect on the recent trends toward deconversion from faith in light of these pressures; and she offers psychologically grounded guidance for approaching doubt and ambiguity in a secure relational context, seeking to make the unspoken or implicit doubts explicit. Rather than remaining perched upon our individualized, certainty-driven house-of-card faith; she lays out a way to inhabit a flexible, resilient, and relationally grounded faith, tolerant of ambiguity and adaptive and secure amidst all our winds of doubt. This episode was made possible in part by the generous support of Blueprint 1543. For more information, visit Blueprint1543.org.

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