{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-un-silent-church.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fhistory-of-black-christianity-1fRxS1ba","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The History of Black Christianity You Were Never Told","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a68c7757-f766-409f-8a09-a88efdf2fb42/2aab37e1-f942-412e-b05c-cfae4b09dc70/unsilent-church-profile-fin-01.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/accdb796-20a6-4fac-9d49-7daf883236c1\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The History of Black Christianity You Were Never Told\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Every conversation about \"Black Christianity\" gets stuck arguing about the modifier. Aren't we all just Christians? \n\nBelieve it or not, that's like saying \"I don't see color.\" \n\nTalking to Dr. Walter Strickland (author of Swing Low and professor at Southeastern Seminary), he flips the conversation in the first two minutes. Christianity without a modifier is actually the dangerous one because it smuggles in one culture as normative for everybody else. And that's just one of the gems that get dropped in this episode of the Unsilent Church Podcast."}