We talked with Duke Kwon and Greg Thompson about their new book Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair, which explores reparations from a biblical/Christian perspective.
Duke L. Kwon (MDiv, ThM, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is the lead pastor at Grace Meridian Hill, a neighborhood congregation in the Grace DC Network committed to building cross-cultural community in Washington, DC. Kwon is active in public conversations around race, equity, and racial repair in the American church, and he lectures on these topics around the country. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, and The Witness.
You can follow Duke on Twitter and Facebook.
Gregory Thompson (PhD, University of Virginia) is a pastor, scholar, artist, and producer whose work focuses on race and equity in the United States. He serves as executive director of Voices Underground (an initiative to build a national memorial to the Underground Railroad outside of Philadelphia), research fellow in African American heritage at Lincoln University (HBCU), and visiting theologian for mission at Grace Mosaic Church in Washington, DC. He is also the cocreator of Union: The Musical, a soul and hip-hop-based musical about the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike. Thompson lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
You can follow Gregory on Twitter and Facebook.
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Hi there
I LOVED this podcast and have shared it with a number of others, including on my FB timeline. However, I did notice a conspicuous absence of reference to indigenous Americans, African Americans were the primary point of reference throughout. While not wanting to make any less of the claim for reparations by the African American community, surely indigenous Americans have a stake every bit as great in this conversation?
Indeed! It does seem to me that indigenous Americans ought to be considered as well.