Changing Truth - An Ever Evolving Journey - 168

Irenicast - A Progressive Christian Podcast

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 [e-mail].

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 find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Irenicast

On Thursdays, Casey will be popping on to share his thoughts on the week and let you know about what else might be happening with the show. He is calling this time Thoughtful Thursdays.

Every Sunday morning at 10am PST, Jeff and Rajeev are going to live to hangout. It is a great opportunity to ask questions, share some of our favorite things and have a generally good time. We’re calling it Sunday Mic Check.

And finally, as a supplement to the podcasts we will be starting something called, Continuing the Conversation. This will be an opportunity give your thoughts on the current Irenicast episode in addition to getting a preview for the next episode. We will be doing this the Mondays after new episodes post at 5pm PST.

RELEVANT LINKS

From Our Conversation on Changing Truth

• The Truth Series so Far
• • What Is Truth? – Spilling the Capital Tea – 165
  • Continuing the Conversation on Episode #165 – What is Truth – 165b
  • Moral Truth – Relative or Reality? – 166
  • Continuing the Conversation on Moral Truth – 166b
  • Who Tells the Truth? – Rajeev’s Three R’s – 167
  • Continuing the Conversation on Who Tells the Truth - 167b
• Memoir of a Gay Pastor – Closets and Calling – 131 (Irenicast Episode)
• Jeremiah 20 (CEB)
• The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity? by Tom Harpur (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel by Brian D. McLaren & Tony Campolo (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• N.T. Wright (New Testament Scholar)
• Liberation Theology
• Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible by Renita J. Weems (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine by Sue Monk Kidd (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• The Death of the Mythic God: The Rise of Evolutionary Spirituality by Jim Marion (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition by Arvind Sharma (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• The Five Stages of the Soul: Charting the Spiritual Passages That Shape Our Lives by Harry R. Moody (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by MALCOLM X (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Gustavo Gutiérrez (Peruvian philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest regarded as one of the founders of liberation theology)
• We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People by Gustavo Gutierrez (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Rob Bell (American Author and Speaker)
• Pema Chödrön's Compassion Cards: Teachings for Awakening the Heart in Everyday Life Cards by Pema Chodron (Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Love Wins by Rob Bell (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
• Evangelicals Shift Progressive in Proximity to Whiteness – With Special Guest Joey Torres – 121 (Irenicast Episode)
• Samwise Gamgee (Fictional Character from The Lord of the Rings)

From Our Famous Christians for 100 Segment

• Jeopardy (America Game Show)
• John Piper
• John MacArthur
• Franklin Graham
• Pat Robertson
• Carman
• Desmond Mpilo Tutu (South African Anglican Cleric, Theologian and Nobel Prize Winner)
• C.S. Lewis
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (Book - AMazon Affiliate Link)

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