Ep 54: Fr. Greg Lynn—What Does the Bible Say About Race?

Fr. Greg Lynn is the vicar of Epiphany Church in Peoria, Illinois. He also happens to be my pastor and my friend. On Sunday, August 20 he preached a message that had been weighing on his heart and mind, "What Does the Bible Say About Race?", and I wanted to offer a place for people to hear it. You can stream the episode below and after the break you can scroll through and view the slides that go along with the sermon. 



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The sermon slides: (after the jump)

Ep 49: Doug Chu on White Churches, Multicultural Worship, and the Asian-American Experience

Today's episode features and interview with Doug Chu on multicultural worship, the Asian-American experience, and a segment I like to call "I wish white churches would..." Doug was kind enough to play along. Doug is a musician and worship leader based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a volunteer worship team leader at Madison Square Church's Ford campus. An American-born Chinese, Doug was raised in Singapore. As a worship leader, his interests include multicultural worship for congregations seeking racial reconciliation and the intersection of charismatic and liturgical worship.

Subscribe to the podcast on itunes 
Check out the podcast page to subscribe on Stitcher, Google Play, Tunein, and PocketCasts.

Related Podcast Episodes:
Episode 47: Dr. Lester Ruth on the history of Contemporary Worship
Episode 26: Zac Hicks author of The Worship Pastor
Episode 07: Pastor Luke Edwards on "why churches should stop giving stuff away"

Episode 08: Dr. Jeremiah Gibbs on Postmodern Apologetics

Episode 11: Thom Blair on the Hebrew English Interlinear O.T. and Logos Bible Software

Episode 17: Pastor Douglas Wilson 

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Chris Rock Has About 5 Options As To How He Will Host the Academy Awards

This Sunday, February 28 is the 2016 Academy Awards Oscar ceremony. Comedian/actor/director Chris Rock is hosting and many are wondering what his comedic approach will be as he delivers his opening monologue and skewers celebrities in between awards announcements.

This year in particular seems to be a perfect storm for Rock and his comedic sensibilities. For some reason, the academy chose to offer zero nominations to African American or minority actors (despite there being numerous worthy choices), while also selecting America's most prominent and incendiary black comedian as its host (instead of offering it to Billy Crystal again). The lack of diversity in this year's Oscars has sparked a funny but enlightening twitter category #oscarssowhite, led a number of prominent Hollywood types to boycott the event, and has even caused Chris Rock to entirely revamp his routine for the night (instead of boycotting it). This has lead to speculation as to how exactly Rock is going to take on the current situation in the Academy. 

As I see it, he has about 5 different options before him, all with varying levels of probability of actually happening:

Art is Not Weight Lifting: Why the Beck vs. Beyonce Comparisons Are Unfair And Wrong (and lazy!)

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Wow.

What a crazy week it has been in the pop music world.

The Racism of Arrested Development (And what Mitchell Hurwitz should do next)

Allow me to make a blanket statement: Arrested Development is a racist show.

Its depiction of non-white races is continually offensive, placing African Americans, Hispanics, and Americans of Asian descent on the margins (never in the center) of the plot, while also constantly resorting to jokes that play off the worst stereotypes associated with each of these people groups' ethnic identities.  And please note how there is a lot more racial humor (along with non-white actors) present in the (relatively) recently released season 4 than in the first 3 original seasons.

Now let me say this: This is all part of the joke and I hope you find it funny.