Training Christians to Divide: White Fragility
Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 37
Be the Bridge Ministry has it’s white bridge builders start with teaching them about their whiteness; hoping to help them learn humility and grow in racial righteousness. The Be The Bridge 101 Guide: Foundational Principals Every White Bridge Builder Needs to Know helps gives white people 4 steps to addressing their whiteness; White Identity, White Privilege, White Fragility, and White Supremacy.
We have addressed the first 2 in the last episode and are going to talk about the 3 foundational principle in this one: White Fragility. We will ask questions about white fragility to help us see what’s behind the idea.
Topics Include:
- What is white fragility?
- What spurs it on?
- What cultural ideas ignite white fragility in white people? Are they ideas worth being challenged and cast aside?
- What are the presuppositions behind white fragility?
- Is teaching white people to over come white fragility a good or bad thing? Does overcoming it, as we are instructed in Be The Bridge 101, actually bring unity to God’s people?
- White fragility and real racism
- How do we as Christians REALLY become humble and fight ethnic hatred and false bias?
May this episode bless you and bring glory to God!
Resources in this episode:
Be The Bridge Podcast Episodes used in opening clip:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7l54bWoy6lLOkLHybM1wyz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVddM1hzmvI&t=780s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRCdUsJRxoM
Selfwire: White Fragility is an Evil and Irrational Concept
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C1_KCEMpeU
Kootenai Church Coference: Progressive Christianity & the Church
https://kootenaichurch.org/conferences/twenty22/progressive-christianity-and-the-church/
Got Questions on the Parable of the Talents:
https://www.gotquestions.org/parable-talents.html
Other Resources:
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