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Read more about the article S3 Bonus | Talking with Our Kids About Race, Justice, Love, and Privilege

S3 Bonus | Talking with Our Kids About Race, Justice, Love, and Privilege

  • Post published:July 7, 2020
  • Post category:Family/Parenting/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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How do we talk with kids about race, justice, and privilege? In this follow up to last week’s interview with Patricia Raybon, Amy Julia interviews her three children. Penny, William,…

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Read more about the article S3 E3 | Our Different Stories Divide Us with Patricia Raybon

S3 E3 | Our Different Stories Divide Us with Patricia Raybon

  • Post published:June 30, 2020
  • Post category:Faith/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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How do white parents talk with their children about race and racism? Why do white evangelical and Black Christians seem so socially and politically divided? How do our different stories…

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Read more about the article S3 E2 | Living into the Really Real with Micha Boyett

S3 E2 | Living into the Really Real with Micha Boyett

  • Post published:June 23, 2020
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

How can we talk about race and disability without conflating the two? How can white, able-bodied, neurotypical people enter into this conversation? What is the difference between “white fragility” and…

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Read more about the article Privilege, Monuments, and Healing

Privilege, Monuments, and Healing

  • Post published:June 17, 2020
  • Post category:Current Events/Podcast/Privilege and Race
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Twenty-one years ago, I moved to Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia. The monuments that line the center of this thoroughfare that connects downtown Richmond to the suburbs are huge. Taller…

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Read more about the article S3 E1 | Waking Up to Privilege with David Bailey

S3 E1 | Waking Up to Privilege with David Bailey

  • Post published:June 16, 2020
  • Post category:Podcast/Privilege and Race
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Race, class, and the kingdom of God all come up in this conversation between Amy Julia and David Bailey, Director of Arrabon, a ministry to help churches become reconciling communities.…

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Read more about the article Season 3 Trailer: White Picket Fences

Season 3 Trailer: White Picket Fences

  • Post published:June 12, 2020
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Are you looking for a safe place to talk about race, class, and social divisions? Do you want to learn more about these topics? Do you want a way to…

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Read more about the article A Week of Protests: Learn, Listen, Lament, and Love

A Week of Protests: Learn, Listen, Lament, and Love

  • Post published:June 2, 2020
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As everyone paying any attention to the news knows, social unrest and protests have broken out across our nation. A black man named George Floyd was killed by a white…

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Chapter 4: Prayer

  • Post published:May 31, 2020
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When I was deciding what chapters to record for this Reading Small Talk podcast, I skimmed through the whole book. But when I got to the chapter on Prayer, I…

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Read more about the article Hope and the Spiritual Imagination

Hope and the Spiritual Imagination

  • Post published:May 26, 2020
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“I suspect every pregnant woman imagines a hypothetical life for her child. And every pregnant woman knows that child’s life won’t work out exactly as she imagined it. Life will…

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Chapter 3: Beauty

  • Post published:May 21, 2020
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It was over a decade ago—a few months after William was born—that I caught a glimpse of my body in a full-length mirror and worried about what I saw.⁠ ⁠…

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