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Episode 36: #GriefAND White Supremacy featuring Gregory Thompson. Gregory is a pastor, scholar, writer, producer, and amateur cook whose work focuses on racial healing in America. He currently serves as Executive Director of Voices Underground, an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad in Southeast Pennsylvania. Dr. Thompson is also a Research Fellow in African American Cultural Heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), the Visiting Theologian for Mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington DC, and the co-author (with Duke Kwon) of Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair (Brazos Press, April 2021). He received his PhD in the Theology, Ethics, and Culture program in the University of Virginia’s department of Religious Studies, where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rather than taking people as gloriously made in the image of God, beloved of God, rescued by Christ there is now this fundamental characteristic (race) which is imprinted on all our our minds.
Dr. Gregory Thompson
In this episode, Dr. Thompson starts out by sharing the grief he experiences over seeing how people use politics to invoke race wars in our culture and how our political leaders are refusing to speak on some of the key issues facing our culture. In our conversation we discuss how it is important for the church to not be silent and to be willing to address the issues that are prevalent in our society. Dr. Thompson also discusses the topic of white supremacy, both defining what that term means and also providing insight into how it is impacting our culture today.
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Resources
You can purchase or learn more about Gregory Thompson’s book Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair HERE
You can also listen to the IG Live that Natasha and Gregory hosted and listen to their conversation around Dr. Thompson’s book Reparations.
If you would like to follow more of Dr. Gregory Thompson’s work you can do so in two ways:
- Follow and support the work of Voices Underground a non-profit creative consulting firm that specializes in telling the stories of African American history.
- Follow Dr. Thompson’s food column “The Welcome Table” through Comment magazine
Some of the resources that Dr. Gregory Thompson recommended on the podcast are:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
“High on the Hog” Netflix Series
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