Explore every episode of the podcast Faith and Race Podcast
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| Episode 6: What We've Learned | 09 juin 2022 | 00:32:21 | |
About This Episode Podcast hosts Rev. Sharon Williams, Rev. Russell Ewell and Rev. Fabian Gonzalez discuss some of the things they learned as they interviewed members of the historic Black churches of the Missouri Conference throughout this season. In This Episode 01:16: Thoughts and Learning Opportunities for the Denomination The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 5: Social Justice and Taking a Stand at St. James UMC | 02 juin 2022 | 01:14:34 | |
About This Episode Kansas City, Missouri. St. James United Methodist Church launched in 1973 when two small churches combined. Listen in as current pastor Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Cleaver III, Robert Silvan and Leola Evans share about the history and experience of the Historically Black Church. In This Episode 00:00: Church History Narration The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 4: Engaging the Community for Justice in St. Louis | 26 mai 2022 | 00:48:21 | |
About This Episode St. Louis, Missouri. Union Memorial was founded in 1846 on three foundations: Love which is a God-given light from heaven, a spark of that immortal fire which angels share. Faith which binds us to the infinite. Hope, the balm and life-blood of the soul. Union Memorial is unique in many ways, such as hosting W.E.B. Du Bois in 1913 and being the second largest structure of its kind in the United States (a hyperbolic paraboloid shell). The congregation at Union Memorial has a long, proud heritage of community-based social justice. In This Episode 00:00: A Rich and Proud History The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 3: Keeping Time in KC's Jazz District | 19 mai 2022 | 00:47:56 | |
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Kansas City, Missouri. In 1907, Asbury Chapel and Burn Chapel consolidated to form one church: Centennial Methodist Episcopal Church. In this episode, Rev. Jason Bryles (Centennial's pastor since July 2016), Paula King (member since 1962), Ramada Davis (member for 48 years) and Donald Rogerson (member for 70 years) discuss Centennial United Methodist Church's the history and influence on its community — beginning at its founding, continuing through the civil rights movement and into today. IN THIS EPISODE 1:00 History and Founding of Centennial UMC ABOUT THIS PODCAST The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond. "The Saints Before Us" is the theme and focus of season three of the Faith and Race Podcast. It draws on both Hebrews 11, and its description of the cloud of witnesses, and Ephesians 4 with its directive to equip saints for the work of ministry. The phrase "saints before us" invites listeners to consider the duality of its meaning: In that, the new season of the podcast focuses on Missouri's Black United Methodist Churches and highlights both the work of the saints that came before us and offers an invitation to the saints currently before us to carry that legacy. | |||
| Episode 2: New Life and Legacy in St. Louis | 12 mai 2022 | 00:50:58 | |
ABOUT THIS EPISODE St. Louis, Missouri. After the 1917 East St. Louis Race Riots in Illinois, much of East St. Louis's Black population fled the death and destruction and sought new economic opportunities across the river into St. Louis, Missouri. This birthed a new Methodist congregation under Rev. Martin Luther Jackson at Good Samaritan Methodist Episocopal Church. The goal was peace and shelter in a new urban environment. Despite hardships, the congregation is still alive today. Listen in as Pastor Ivan James and longtime church members discuss the life, times and legacy of Samaritan UMC.
Note: Since the recording of this podcast, Samaritan UMC has merged with Asbury UMC to form New Horizons UMC.
IN THIS EPISODE 00-7:36 History of the Church Beginnings 8:45 Poetry Reading 11:45 The Building on Washington and Memories 14:30 How the Race Riots Led to the New Church and Early History 18:00 A Rich and Deep Local Community 19:50 A Front-End Problem and the Three P's 23:05 An Example of Faithfulness 27:00 How Segregation Impacted the Local Black Church 27:26 Remembering Church as a Child and Her Family's Dedication 32:00 We Had Everything We Needed in the Community 33:45 The Children of Good Samaritan 39:00 Changes Come 41:37 Hopes for The Future 42:45 Living the Gospel and Needed Changes
ABOUT THIS PODCAST The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond.
"The Saints Before Us" is the theme and focus of season three of the Faith and Race Podcast. It draws on both Hebrews 11, and its description of the cloud of witnesses, and Ephesians 4 with its directive to equip saints for the work of ministry. The phrase "saints before us" invites listeners to consider the duality of its meaning: In that, the new season of the podcast focuses on Missouri's Black United Methodist Churches and highlights both the work of the saints that came before us and offers an invitation to the saints currently before us to carry that legacy. | |||
| Episode 1: Faith and Resilience at Pitt's Chapel | 05 mai 2022 | 00:40:41 | |
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Springfield, Missouri. Pitt's Chapel is a testament to strength in adversity: beginning in times of slavery, through the lynchings of innocent Black men and the subsequent shift that brought Springfield from a population that was 25% Black to the under 5% it is today. Current pastor Rev. Tracey Wolff, Kim Jones, John Huddleston and Charlotte Hardin talk through the history of Pitt's Chapel from its onset through tragedy and onward during the civil rights movement into today. IN THIS EPISODE 1:00 Introduction and History of Pitt's Chapel ABOUT THIS PODCAST The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond. "The Saints Before Us" is the theme and focus of season three of the Faith and Race Podcast. It draws on both Hebrews 11, and its description of the cloud of witnesses, and Ephesians 4 with its directive to equip saints for the work of ministry. The phrase "saints before us" invites listeners to consider the duality of its meaning: In that, the new season of the podcast focuses on Missouri's Black United Methodist Churches and highlights both the work of the saints that came before us and offers an invitation to the saints currently before us to carry that legacy. | |||
| Faith and Race Podcast Season 3 Trailer - "The Saints Before Us" | 11 avr. 2022 | 00:01:07 | |
The Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church is excited to announce the release date of season three of the Faith and Race Podcast. Beginning on May 5, new episodes will become available weekly on Thursdays. The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help faithful people host conversations about race, faith and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus to help listeners intentionally think about the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. The audio recordings bring diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes, and hearts across Missouri and beyond. "The Saints Before Us" is the theme and focus of season three of the Faith and Race Podcast. It draws on both Hebrews 11, and its description of the cloud of witnesses, and Ephesians 4 with its directive to equip saints for the work of ministry. The phrase "saints before us" invites listeners to consider the duality of its meaning: In that, the new season of the podcast focuses on Missouri's Black United Methodist Churches and highlights both the work of the saints that came before us and offers an invitation to the saints currently before us to carry that legacy. | |||
| BONUS Episode: Racial Autobiographies of Past Faith and Race Podcast Guests | 13 mars 2022 | 00:20:42 | |
About This Episode In this episode we revisit the racial biographies of our past guests Rev. Winter Hamilton, host Connor Kenaston and Rev. Tina Harris. In This Episode 1:20 Black Dutch: Winter Hamilton 5:14 Winter's Friend Audrey 10:12 Connor Kenaston: Understanding Race 15:12 Tina Harris: Growing Up in a Small Factory Town | |||
| Episode 8: Live Panel - Who Lynched Willie Earle with Revs. Will Willimon and Willis Johnson | 23 sept. 2020 | 00:38:33 | |
About This Episode In this episode, we listen to a live panel with Revs. Will Willimon and Willis Johnson. Rev. Will Willimon is the former dean of the chapel at Duke University. Rev. Willis Johnson was the pastor of Wellspring Church in Ferguson when Michael Brown was killed by the police and for the uprisings that followed. "I hope I presented myself in my book as a recoverinig racist. Mine was a gentile, nice kind of racism ... I hope I presented this: I'm a sinner. I do other sin, other than racism. But I know it's subtlety, I know it waves and morphs into other things." "Don't talk about a sin as deep as racism, centuries deep, bred into us, part of the fabric of American society, don't talk about that unless you believe that God will forgive us. Unless you believe Jesus Christ died for sinners. If you believe that it is actually possible to not have an ugly defensive conversation." In This Episode 1:00 Why This Work 4:45 Awakening and God's Work 9:30 The American Lynching and The Cross (James Cone) 14:30 Speaking about Race As a White Preacher 17:30 The Injustice Inflicted by Good People 26:45 What Would You Stand in the Door For? 30:22 The Joy of Admitting You're a Sinner | |||
| Episode 7: Women in the Church and the Power of Prayer with Rev. Lia McIntosh | 23 sept. 2020 | 00:27:44 | |
About This Episode In this episode, guest host Nick Rhinehart interviews Rev. Lia McIntosh, the a missional strategist for the Center for Congregational Excellence in the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church. "We planted that church in an urban area in Kansas City. It was as a pastor in an urban area that I realized the social and practical needs of people were not separate from their spiritual needs. That in order to be the church, we had to have a holistic gospel. The beauty of that is that our Wesleyan Theology is very much that. So the work of social justice and the work of the church is one. It's not a separate body of work." "The downfall of segregation is that we fail to see the full humanness of our whole community if we only do life with people who are like us. We don't see the fullness of God that is lived out in people who are very different, whose life experiences and journeys have been different from ours. That is where we connect with the richness of humanity, at the intersection of people and experiences and theology that are different." In This Episode 1:10 Upbringing and Calling as a Woman in Ministry Leadership 3:30 Coaching and Working in Social Justice 7:30 How We Can Learn to Listen Well 14:00 Experience with Race in the UMC Church 18:15 How Ferguson Has Affected the Missouri UMC Church and God's Call on the Church 21:50 Advice for Leaders 23:00 A Blessing for Women in Ministry | |||
| Episode 6: Racial Equity as it Connects to Faith with Karen Yang | 23 sept. 2020 | 00:25:04 | |
About This Episode Host Kenneth Pruitt interviews Karen Yang. "It wasn't until I moved to St. Louis that I really understood race in terms of oppression. Before that I always understood racism as something that just ignorant and dumb people did. So if they said slurs, that was just them not knowing any better or they weren't really nice. Coming to St. Louis, then studying social work, then going to seminary, and being shaped by what happened with the murder of Michael Brown, and the uprising in Ferguson, then I started to understand what Black folks experience in the United States of America, the legacies of red-lining, the impact of debtors prisons and payday lending, and educational and health inequalities. There is a whole host of issues that crop up with racism." In This Episode 00:30 Ethnoburb Upbringing 4:20 Shifting from Personal Racism to Systemic 8:00 De-centering Whiteness from the Racism Conversations 11:45 Fighting Oppression Wherever You Are 16:10 Moments that Highlight Identity and Intersectionality 20:40 Parting Thoughts: Race is a Function of Space | |||
| Episode 5: Racial Justice in Largely White Contexts with Rev. Winter Hamilton | 23 sept. 2020 | 00:27:40 | |
About This Episode Host Kenneth Pruitt interviews Rev. Winter Hamilton of Manchester United Methodist Church in St. Louis. Hamilton is an Ordained Deacon. Together they talk about the possibilities of engaging with racial justice and equity even when living in a predominantly white area. 1:25 Surprised by Ministry Calling | |||
| Episode 4: The Intersection of Faith and Race with Jeff Jaekley and Alie Flores | 02 juil. 2020 | 00:23:11 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston interviews Rev. Jeff Jaekley who serves as the Native American Representative on the MSJ Team for the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church. Towards the end of the episode you will hear Allie Flores in conversation with Kenneth Pruitt about the intersectionality of race and faith. "Some of my identity has been shaped by the not-knowing. What I have come to realize is my dad was taught to be ashamed of his Native American heritage. He was of a generation, (and there is a whole generation of folks his age or around there) that was basically told that if they could pass for white it would be better for them." "The idea was, we need to take these children away from their Indian families and make good Americans out of them. A lot of times that meant taking away their heritage, their native identity, any religious or spiritual practices they may have picked up from their family, taking away from them their native languages. It has only been in the last 30-40 years that there has been a renaissance in teaching those languages because there were generations that never learned them." "Ninety-plus percent of our nuclear waste is placed on tribal lands. Which when you tie it into history goes into the fact that the lands that they were given to be their reservations space was land that no one else really wanted. So it's not land that is necessarily conducive to growing crops or land renovation. So then these companies come in and say, 'We'll give you lots of money to store this stuff on your land.' And whatever options do they have, you might say. But then there is also resilience to them." In This Episode 1:00 A Process of Discovery in Racial Identity 4:30 Native American Identity and Historical Shame 5:50 Loss of Culture through Government Programs 7:30 The Church and Manifest Destiny 8:30 Methodist Pastors Showing Solidarity 9:45 Continued Actions Against Tribes 10:30 Resilience Despite Hundreds of Years of Discrimination 15:00 Final Message 16:30 Allie Flores and Intersectionality as a Mexican American | |||
| Episode 3: Two White Guys Talking about Race and the Church with Kenneth Pruitt and Connor Kenaston | 02 juil. 2020 | 00:28:11 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston chats with Kenneth Pruitt. Pruitt has worked for the Diversity Awareness Partnership and in this podcast is transitioning in as the new host of the podcast. 00:30 Childhood Experiences and Understanding of Race | |||
| Episode 2: Being Honest with Ourselves with Rev. David Gilmore | 02 juil. 2020 | 00:21:47 | |
About This Episode Join host Connor Kenaston as he talks with Rev. David Gilmore, who served for 20 years in the U.S. navy, and later as a pastor in Missouri, before becoming the Heartland District Superintendent in 2020. 00:45 Growing Up as a Pastor's Kid and Finding a Calling | |||
| Episode 1: Identity as a Light-Skinned, Black Person with David Hartsfield | 02 juil. 2020 | 00:26:07 | |
About This Episode In this first episode of season 2, host Connor Kenaston talks to David Hartsfield. Hartsfield is a political scientist who has done research work in West Africa. He speaks to growing up as a light-skinned Black person in the United States and how that compares with other countries he has experienced. 0:55 Growing Up as Lighter Skinned Black Man | |||
| Episode 8: Who Are We and Who Can We Be With Rev. Tina Harris | 02 juin 2020 | 00:13:07 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston interviews Rev. Tina Harris who served as a human resource professional, later as an attorney and diversity expert for several law firms in Kansas City. Later, Harris followed God's call into ministry and became Grand Avenue Temple's first African American pastor in its 150 year history. 2:08 The First Interaction with the "N-Word" | |||
| Episode 7 Bonus Content: Institutional Racism and Justice Movements, Then and Now with Cassandra Gould | 02 juin 2020 | 00:06:27 | |
Welcome to the Faith and Race Podcast! The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help churches host constructive dialogue about faith, race and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus on the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. These episodes will bring the diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 7: Institutional Racism and Justice Movements, Then and Now with Cassandra Gould | 02 juin 2020 | 00:25:29 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston interviews Rev. Dr. Cassandra Gould, who is the pastor of Queen Chapel UME Church in Jefferson City. She is also the Vice President of the African American Clergy Coalition of Mid-Missouri and the Executive Director of the Missouri Faith Voices. 1:10 Racism In Alabama vs. St. Louis | |||
| Episode 6: White Flight and the Story of a Black Female Police Officer with Patricia Flernoy | 02 juin 2020 | 00:20:36 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston interviews Patricia Flernoy, who served with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for 30 years before retiring. 2:34 Police Brutality, Police Reform and Tensions within the Department | |||
| Episode 5 Bonus Content: Black Theology with William Johnson III | 02 juin 2020 | 00:03:24 | |
Welcome to the Faith and Race Podcast! The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help churches host constructive dialogue about faith, race and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus on the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. These episodes will bring the diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 5: Black Theology with William Johnson III | 02 juin 2020 | 00:24:00 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston interviews Rev. Dr. William Johnson III speaks to the theology of racial justice and reconciliation. Rev. Dr. Johnson is a native of St. Louis and served as minister in several churches before becoming chaplain at Christian Hospital in St. Louis and as Minister of Young Adults and Cross-Cultural Ministry Outreach at University Methodist Church. 1:25 How Did Jesus Deal with Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Differences | |||
| Episode 4: Racial Justice in Rural Settings with Lealure Tindall | 02 juin 2020 | 00:18:51 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston shares an oral history interview he recorded with Lealure Tindall about her experience of growing up Black in small-town Missouri in the 1950's. 2:30 Integration of Schools | |||
| Episode 3 Bonus Content: Ferguson and Faith with Leah Gunning Francis | 02 juin 2020 | 00:09:44 | |
Welcome to the Faith and Race Podcast! The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help churches host constructive dialogue about faith, race and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus on the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. These episodes will bring the diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 3: Ferguson and Faith with Dr. Leah Gunning Francis | 02 juin 2020 | 00:24:57 | |
About This Episode Host Connor Kenaston talks to Dr. Leah Gunning Francis about her book Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community. On August 9, 2014, the shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer became a catalyst for new conversations about race across the United States. 1:00 Clergy Involvement in Ferguson Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community by Dr. Leah Gunning Francis | |||
| Episode 2 Bonus Content: Past's Presence with John Wright and Arnold Parks | 02 juin 2020 | 00:05:55 | |
Welcome to the Faith and Race Podcast! The Faith and Race Podcast is designed to help churches host constructive dialogue about faith, race and the Church. Every episode has a specific focus on the intersection of history, institutions, scripture, prayer, race and justice. These episodes will bring the diverse insights and experiences into churches, homes and hearts across Missouri and beyond. | |||
| Episode 2: Past's Presence with Drs. John Wright and Arnold Parks | 02 juin 2020 | 00:23:38 | |
About This Episode Join host Connor Kenaston as he talks with Dr. John Wright and Dr. Arnold Parks, co-authors of African American United Methodist Churches in Missouri. Dr. Arnold Parks is a former sociologist professor at Lincoln University in Jefferson City and is currently a pastor. Dr. John Wright was a school principal for over 40 years. They speak to how the United Methodist church in Missouri interacted with and even, at times, contributed to the history of slavery and segregation in Missouri. 0:55 The Ugly Side of the Church and Race | |||
| Episode 1: Why We Need to Talk About Race with Cody Collier | 30 mars 2020 | 00:23:38 | |
About This Episode In our first episode, host Connor Kenaston talks to Rev. Cody Collier about why it is important for people of faith to talk about race within the Church, finding our identity in Christ and tools in building inclusiveness. 0:55 Why Is It Important to Talk About Race in Church | |||