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Dr. Vince Bantu - Decolonizing Christianity

March 02, 2023 • People Who See • Season 2 • Episode 42

Today we sit down with Dr. Vince Bantu, Assistant Professor of Church History and Black Church Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dr. Vince shares his story of growing up in racially segregated St. Louis with the idea that he needed to leave his culture and context behind in order to truly follow Jesus. He helps us unpack the ways whiteness has overtaken our understanding of what it means to be Christian. Dr. Vince powerfully reminds us that there is no way of following Jesus that is uncultural because God sees and intends each person to follow Jesus according to their own culture. He shows us the necessity of unraveling white culture from our theology and honoring and embracing other ways of knowing and following God. We explore the ways that we as white Christians can surrender our power and submit to people of color to teach us about what it means to be Christian.

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