Podcast Episodes
Podcast episodes taking racial struggles to the throne of grace, United? We Pray is a ministry devoted to praying about racial strife—especially between Christians.
What About The Other “Other”? More Than A Black/White Conversation (w/ Duke Kwon)
“The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.” - Luke 18:11 Episode Overview: Should our conversations about race and the church only be black and...
Stopping By Ephesus: Reflections 50 Years After MLK Jr.’s Assassination (w/ John Perkins)
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” - Matthew 6:10 Episode Overview: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Fifty years later to the day, Isaac Adams sat with Dr. John Perkins, an 87-year-old...
20 Years Later: Why Are Evangelicals (Still) Divided by Faith? (w/ Michael Emerson)
. "Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger." James 1:19 Episode Overview In this episode, Trillia Newbell and Isaac Adams talk with Michael Emerson, one of the authors of the seminal work, Divided by Faith....
Colorblindness: What If I Don’t See You As My Black Friend?
"After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands."...
What’s The Goal Of Racial Reconciliation?
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” - Romans 13:9 Episode Overview: In this episode, Trillia and Isaac talk and pray about the goal of racial reconciliation. Why is it helpful or unhelpful? What isn’t the goal of racial...
Interracial Marriages: One Flesh but Two Families? (w/ SharDavia Walker)
Episode Overview: “What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” - Mark 10:9 In the opening to season two, Trillia Newbell and Isaac Adams talk and pray with SharDavia Walker about interracial marriages—the beauty of them and the difficulty of them...
So, We’re Still Praying?
“We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” - 2 Chronicles 20:12b Episode Overview: Taking racial struggles to the throne, United? We Pray is a podcast that calls for prayer about racial divisions in churches. With all that could be said about race and...
Season’s Greetings: Season’s Finale & Safe Places (w/ Jasmine Holmes)
Overview: “I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.” Psalm 9:1-2 In the season finale, Trillia Newbell and Isaac Adams reflect on the...
Remembering Rightly: History, Race, and American Christianity (w/ Matt Hall)
Overview: “For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility...that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace…” (Ephesians 2:14-15) In our last episode with Karen...
Small & Unannounced: Unity & Underground Churches (w/ Karen Ellis)
Overview: “Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field…” (Matt. 13:31) Missiologist Karen Ellis joins Isaac Adams and Trillia Newbell to share insights about race and unity from her work...