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This is Crucial
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This is Crucial is a live conversation and podcast focused on healing justice and racial equity. It’s about the conversations we are afraid to have, the issues we are scared to address, and the stories we have too long overlooked. Hosted by Amos J. Disasa and Charlene Han Powell, This is Crucial invites guests and listeners to come with their questions and observations, hopes and heartache. We all hail from different places but are sojourners headed in the same direction—in search of the truth that’s embodied by beloved community. Come as you are but be prepared to be transformed. Learn more at thisiscrucial.com
10episodes
Episodes
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TIC 30 | Ask Us Anything with Amos and Charlene
May 9, 2023Tap to summarizeNo guest this time around, just your questions!
Transcribe →TIC 29 | Dr. William Yoo (Part 2) on Prophetic Zeal and the Asian-American vs. African-American Experience
Mar 30, 2023Tap to summarizeDr. William Yoo joins us for a second time to talk about the prophetic zeal in the church, the difference between the Asian-American and African-American experience, and how to answer the question: "Where are you from?"
Transcribe →TIC 28 | Dr. William Yoo (Part 1) on Slavery, Politics in the Church, and Why He's Still a Presbyterian
Mar 1, 2023Tap to summarizeA conversation with Dr. William Yoo that touches on slavery in the Presbyterian Church, when it's okay to be ambivalent, and whether or not we should talk about politics from the pulpit.
Transcribe →TIC 27 | Bronwyn Harris on White Bias, Teaching in East Oakland, and Dissecting Cow Eyes
Jan 20, 2023Tap to summarizeWe enter the new year with a new crucial conversation with writer and educator Bronwyn Harris.
Transcribe →TIC 26 | Jason Max Ferdinand on The Power of Music, How to be a Good Choir Member, and Funeral Songs
Dec 2, 2022Tap to summarizeJason Max Ferdinand on The Power of Music, How to be a Good Choir Member, and Funeral Songs
Transcribe →TIC 25 | Scott Black Johnston on Loving Your Enemies, Purity Culture, and What it's Like to be a White Man Today
Nov 1, 2022Tap to summarizeScott Black Johnston, author and Senior Pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, joins Charlene and Amos to talk about his new book- Elusive Grace: Loving Your Enemies While Striving for God's Justice.
Transcribe →TIC 24 | Jeff Chu on Evolving Faith, Not Being Defined by Your Title, and Experiencing Healing
Sep 23, 202200:53:42Tap to summarizeA whole new season. A whole New series of episodes. A whole new set of guests. Season 2 kicks off with an interview with writer, reporter, pretend farmer, preacher, and teacher Jeff Chu. This is Crucial is a monthly podcast hosted by Charlene Han Powell and Amos Disasa featuring guests with something to say about healing justice, equity and transformation.
Transcribe →TIC 23 | The Future of Faith: A Panel Discussion with Molly Basket and David Vásquez-Levy
May 21, 202201:30:52Tap to summarizeThe season finale of This Is Crucial. For the first time ever, co-hosts Amos Disasa and Charlene Han Powell and their esteemed guests Molly Baskette and David Vásquez-Levy will gather in-person at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley for a live panel discussion on the future of faith.
Transcribe →TIC 22 | Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings on Finding Hope, The Future of the Church, and Jesus as the Question to Our Answers
Apr 24, 202200:58:54Tap to summarizeOur hosts are joined by Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings, currently Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School. Find out more about This is Crucial at ThisisCrucial.com
Transcribe →TIC 21 | Rabbi Zach Fredman on Accepting Imperfection, Healing in Community, and Jewish White Privilege
Mar 27, 202201:01:15Tap to summarizeOur hosts are joined by Rabbi Zach Fredman, spiritual leader and Creative Director of the Temenos Center for the Arts, a Brooklyn community that creates projects, media and events that live at the intersection of spirituality and the arts. Find out more about This is Crucial at ThisisCrucial.com
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