Episode Three

Pathways of Repair Part 1

The Christian Call for Reparations

Episode Summary —

Part one explores the Christian call for both repentance and repair.

Nicole and Greg discuss the brokenness of racism, the Biblical call to repair racial brokenness, and offer a vision for the journey towards healing and wholeness amongst the Church and people of faith.

 

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Part 1 — What’s Broken?

Brokenness in Our Hearts and Our System

Part 2 — Where is Brokenness?

Seeing Brokenness in Our Lives

Part 3 — Repair

Remaking the World through Repair

 

Guests

Joining host Josh Yates and guest host Bruce Grady this episode are Nicole Martin and Gregory Thompson.

 

  • Bruce Grady is the Director of NC Thrives for the Ormond Center. As an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the former dean of Shaw University Divinity School, Dr. Grady has devoted his life to cultivating relationships between the academy, local and global communities, and congregations to address the major challenges of the 21st century.


  • Rev. Dr. Nicole Martin currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Ministry Impact at American Bible Society. A former management consultant with Deloitte Consulting, Martin has also previously served as an Executive Minister at a multi-site church in Charlotte, NC. Martin teaches courses in Ministry and Leadership Development at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is the author of two books: Made to Lead: Empowering Women for Ministry and Leaning In, Letting Go: A Lenten Devotional. Martin has authored several articles that have been featured in USA Today, Christianity Today, and The Charlotte Observer.


  • Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is a pastor, scholar, artist, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity in the United States. He serves as executive director of Voices Underground (an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia), research fellow in African American heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), and visiting theologian for mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington, DC. He is also the cocreator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop-based musical about the 1968 sanitation workers' strike. Thompson lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

 “As we mend the wounds of the trauma of racism in America, we’ll start to see a mending of the wounds of trust. Trauma and trust have both been broken.”

 
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Pathways of Repair — Part 2