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Subversive Witness
- Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege
- De: Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Mark Labberton - foreword
- Narrado por: Percy Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Privilege is a social consequence of our unwillingness to reckon with and turn from sin. But stewarded, it can help us see and participate in God's inbreaking kingdom. Scripture repeatedly affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have a responsibility to leverage it. Subversive Witness asks us to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways by using biblical examples to reveal the complex nature of privilege and Christians' responsibility in stewarding it well.
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Biblical and Actionable
- De Celeste Irwin en 09-06-21
- Subversive Witness
- Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege
- De: Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Mark Labberton - foreword
- Narrado por: Percy Bell
Biblical and Actionable
Revisado: 09-06-21
I'm a nearly-40 white American man and 16-year tech veteran. I've got all kinds of privilege, a word that I used to hear as "I should feel very bad about myself." But I'm trying to learn, and Gillard does a fantastic job here of disarming that fear, and instead illuminating as he says: Scripture's call to leverage privilege. The fact that he covers so much ground in ~5 hours (and I was able to easily listen/understand at 1.5-2x speed) is really impressive.
I loved the format, as each chapter centered around a key event in the bible where someone with privilege leveraged it for others (Pharaoh's daughter, Moses, Jesus, Zacchaeus). I thought his analysis of Vashti/Esther was particularly outstanding as was his general treatment of women throughout.
Beyond the biblical exploration, Gillard links each to very clear practicals that are going to warrant revisiting (I plan to order a paper copy now to flip through as a reference) - it's challenging in all the right ways. Making me think about the ways I've allied myself with the powerful rather than the powerless, and ways where I'm nowhere near "proximate" enough to those who God calls me to try to care for.
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