Race
8 conversations where the hosts get into race.
8 conversations
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Mike's perspective: labels, identity, and loving people you don't understand
- How can I better love people whose life experiences I don't understand?
The host addressed in the audio as Mike delivers 'Mike's perspective': reading the book I Am N about persecuted Christians and hearing TV criticism about race in America, he…
From No. 321 · Five Things to Stop in Your Twenties
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Dear LFTP: relationship fights and counseling
- How should I handle escalating fights with my girlfriend, including racially charged insults?
- Where can I find a good therapist?
A Dear LFTP letter from Robert: frequent fights with his girlfriend, financial stress, and her telling him he wants 'an obedient partner because you're Chinese,' which he calls racist.
From No. 280 · Union of Sinners and Saints
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Blindness, the forks analogy, and winning versus solving
A host shares that his daughter, on track to become a dentist, is always assumed to be aiming for hygienist — sexism as a people problem, not just an American one.
From No. 332 · To Kneel or to Drag
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Advice on the letter: mirror their language; Secular's answer
The hosts advise: stop blanketing people with your communication — if someone speaks English to you, answer in English; if they ask for Spanish, answer in Spanish.
From No. 293 · Three Things About Porn
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Article overview and the diversity surprise
- What is the preaching like in America's biggest churches?
Mike gives the gist of the article: four sermons each from the nine biggest churches, roughly eighteen hours of preaching at thirty minutes a sermon.
From No. 414 · Reviewing Sermons from America’s Largest Churches
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What's happening: Jesus and the N-word
- How would Jesus handle the N-word if he were here today?
Dan's third question: a small newspaper used the N-word in a headline about President Obama. He asks how Jesus would handle the word today — A (never use it, too loving), B (use it when the offended aren't around), C (use it in a rap-style Sermon on the Mount).
From No. 197 · Can Nudity Be Nonsexual?
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The answer is Jesus: youth group and the hard issues
A host who leads a youth group says teens have zero reference for God as father or king, then argues the heavy issues want to feel complicated but aren't: the answer to the…
From No. 421 · What Christians Do in a Divided Country
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Dear LFTP preview and the race-categorization riff
While previewing the Dear LFTP letters, a host mentions one from an Anglo woman worried she may be insulting Hispanic neighbors by speaking Spanish to them.
From No. 293 · Three Things About Porn