Today we are joined by debut author and minster, Danté Stewart to discuss his book, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle. Our conversation carries us through and around the intersections of race, religion, and nationality as we discuss the stories we inherent around Blackness, the need for a more radical church, and the texts that give us meaning.
The Stacks Book Club selection for October is Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan, we will discuss the book with October 27th on Nichole Perkins.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.
- Shoutin’ in the Fire by Danté Stewart
- Zami by Audre Lorde
- Tabernacle Baptist Church (Augusta, GA)
- Clemson University
- Viola Davis
- Michael Colter
- Alshon Jeffery
- The Chicago Bears
- June Jordan
- Alice Walker
- Judith Butler
- Katie G. Cannon
- James Baldwin
- Toni Cade Bambara
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Kintsugi
- Emilie Townes
- M. Shawn Copeland
- Botham Jean
- “White Christians, do not cheapen the hug and message of forgiveness from Botham Jean’s brother” (Jemar Tisby, The Washington Post)
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Carol Anderson
- Frantz Fanon
- Angela Y. Davis
- Fred Hampton
- Richard Allen
- Black Lives Matter
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- Where Do We Go from Here by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
- Robert Jones, Jr.
- Deesha Philyaw
- Mateo Askariapour
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Maurice Carlos Ruffin
- Jesmyn Ward
- Sarah M. Broom
- bell hooks
- James H. Cone
- N. K. Jemisin
- “The Exhibition” by Max Richter
- Dante’s reading and playlist
- Unbound by Tarana Burke
- Tarana Burke’s Unbound Playlist
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander
- Levar Burton
- Ava DuVernay
- Nikki Giovanni
- Denzel Washington
- The Obama Family
- Oprah Winfrey
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