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Being Black in White Churches: Where Belonging is Actually Just Conformity

Being Black in White Churches: Where Belonging is Actually Just Conformity

FromHoly Ghosting


Being Black in White Churches: Where Belonging is Actually Just Conformity

FromHoly Ghosting

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Length:
80 minutes
Released:
Apr 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Your fave middle-aged mom apostates connect with their friend Shaunea, a black woman who grew up in almost exclusively white spaces when her white mother converted to Christianity in the 1980’s. Sha’s mom had the kind of testimony Evangelicals went batshit crazy for back then (and still now!)Sha’s story about growing up black in a white Evangelical world reveals some of the deeper beliefs and White Supremacist/Christian Nationalist leanings that have been with the American Evangelical church from…probably the beginning, let’s be real. Join Lindsay, Meg, and Sarai as they listen and discover a long-suppressed reality - when people are not able to be themselves, where belonging is conditional to how one looks, acts, talks, and moves through the world - including the color of their skin (sorry, D.C. Talk - being colorblind isn’t a thing and it’s actually racist, heads up!)….well, it doesn’t do anybody any good to continue to allow that system to flourish and persist. Let’s confront some of the uglier sides of who we were as Evangelical white kids (say Lindsay, Meg, and Sarai) and learn from people who had a much more alienating and disempowering experience than we did. Which…if you’ve listened to even 10 minutes of a single episode of Holy Ghosting, you realize is saying A LOT. 
Released:
Apr 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (56)

Lindsay, Meg, Sarai & friends - a bunch of former church kids who came of age in 80s and 90s American Evangelicalism - are Holy Ghosting. In each episode, we share our youthful experiences and stories of the harm we endured and perpetrated as American Evangelicals and we laugh, we're sarcastic ladies.All three of our hosts grew up in different cities and didn’t meet until recently - and yet…the culture of Evangelicalism is strong and chock full of harm and quizzical quirks everywhere. But now, in our own ways, we're working to reconstruct a community that gives a shit about our neighbors. Join us as we work to tear down the American foundation of patriarchy and white supremacy and rebuild a better world with equity and equality as Exvangelicals.