Perseverance and the Black Church

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Charleston Church Shooting Anniversary with RaShan Frost

Mother Emmanuel AME Rashan Frost joins Austin to discuss the ten year anniversary of the shooting at Mother Emmanuel AME in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Frost is the ERLC director of research and senior fellow focused on issues of human dignity. He is the...

Life in a Hispanic Church with Ivan Gonzalez

Police Reform Ivan Gonzalez serves at Christos Para Las Naciones Church in Penson, Alabama, which is a Hispanic Church primarily serving immigrant families. Ivan joined Austin to talk about what life is like for Christians in Hispanic churches in 2025. We really...

Rethinking the Police with Dan Reinhardt

Police Reform Dr. Daniel Rienhardt is a 24 year veteran of the police force. He is the author of Rethinking the Police: An Officer's Confession and the Pathway to Reform (IVP, 2023). This book is a refreshing change from most conversations about police reform....

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My Education in the American South

I didn’t learn how to read until I was in second grade. Growing up in a large Black family in Birmingham, Alabama, in the early 90s, I learned to survive by blending in. I was one of a bunch (a Southern measurement term) of grandchildren and didn’t, at first glance,...

Seven Things to Know After the Last Election

Lessons from our summer series on politics. This past summer on our podcast, we did something we’ve never done before. We did a focused series on Christianity and politics. This summer series was an effort to equip our listeners to be agents of unity in their...

Still Segregated and Still Unequal: A Look at Education in the American South

Separate but equal In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that creating separate accommodations based on race was justifiable as long as those accommodations were equal. This ruling established a federal legal doctrine known as “separate but...

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United? We Pray

United? We Pray is a ministry to help Christians pray and think about racial strife. We want to encourage Christians amid the strife to rely upon God in prayer. So our prayers can be informed, we strive to learn and write about race, racism and its effects, and theology. We aim to be biblical, beneficial, and clear in all our efforts. While we’re burdened for all racial strife, we focus on racial strife between Christians because of the unique privilege and stewardship God has given his people: to bear witness to Him and to love all people, especially one another (Gal. 6:10).
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