{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"STRONGWILLED","title":"Frank Peretti's America Episode 3: Cosmic Clash of Modernism vs. Spiritual Forces (Interview with Lisa Sharon Harper)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3522,"description":"Lisa Sharon Harper, author of The Very Good Gospel, founder of Freedom Road--a consulting group dedicated to helping people do justice more justly (Check out her excellent podcast here).\n“I wasn’t taught to interpret Scripture. I was just given Scripture and told to do it.”\n19 min: Peretti’s books were a spiritualization of the culture wars which launched in the 1980s through the moral majority. \n26 min: Viv Grigg says that the “powers” move us away from the ethics of God. What does it mean to be ruled by God? It means to come under the constitution of God. Belief for the Hebrews was not a mind thing, it was in the body, and it has to be lived out in the world. And that’s what ethics are. \n31 min: In the book Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America the authors state that the one way for white evangelicals to change their worldview is to be immersed in communities that are unlike themselves\n32 min: “The good news is that Jesus, the king of the kingdom of God, has come to earth to confront the powers of the earth who are hell bent on crushing the image of God.”\n40 min: Recommendations for people who are deconstructing but still want to be aware of power and principalities: immerse yourself in the teachings of communities of color. \nThe Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can be Made Right by Lisa Sharon Harper\nThe Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone\nJesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman \nStand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas\nIn many ways it is a uniquely European and western project to separate the spirit and the body and to secularize the world. \n48 min: “I think that the unspoken project of western civilization has been to usurp God, to become God, to control everything.”\n49:30 Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Carter. \n“The only way to live without connection to the spirit world is to think that you are God, and to live at a level where you don’t experience...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Sz_rwa4IWYSOblBBkYDv80Y8sDXbQzIxqsgegtcbTkk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZWRj/MmM4ZGQwODUyNjc4/NWZmMDc2OTg1MjVm/ZGFjNS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}