Episode Overview: There’s so much hard news these days. Isaac and Austin sit down to talk about how we cope with the hard things in life, how and when to take a break from receiving news, and how to stay engaged without either going numb or despairing. Links & Show Notes: Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us on Instagram and keep exploring our website. Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear mo...
Aug 10, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Episode Overview: Author Blake Long joins Austin on the podcast to talk about his book, Gospel Smugness. Blake has a particular burden to influence Christians toward godlier discourse as we engage each other and the watching world. We hope you are encouraged. Links & Show Notes: You can get Blake Long’s book here . Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us on Instagram and keep exploring our website. Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe u...
Aug 03, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Episode Overview: Austin and Isaac discuss diversity in local churches. What does it mean for a church to be multi-ethnic? How should churches think about diversity? Does diversity mean adding minority members to white churches, or can it be more than that? Links & Show Notes: Derwin Gray has done good work on thinking through multi-ethnic churches. Get his books here . Jamie Dunlop’s article on how diversity is hard and costly. Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us...
Jul 27, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Episode Overview: Sean DeMars of the Defend & Confirm podcast stopped by to talk with Isaac about the different inclinations Christians can have toward complicated, controversial topics. Sean also shared his heart about how Christians passionate about truth must not be unkind in how they go about making their case. Links & Show Notes: Kevin DeYoung’s article on four approaches to complex issues. Austin’s article on not calling people woke , choosing our battles , preaching the gospel , a...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Episode Overview: This episode is part housekeeping while trying to also practice what we preach. Isaac and Austin talk about some slight changes coming to the podcast, our heart behind those changes, and a hard conversation we had recently that demonstrates why this is important. Links & Show Notes: Austin’s article on choosing our battles and on not being a jerk . Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us on Instagram and keep exploring our website. Please consider ra...
Jul 13, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Episode Overview: Dr. Thomas Kidd stopped by to talk with Austin about his new book Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh. How we process complex historical figures is something we’ve discussed at some length here at United? We Pray. Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the most complicated figures one could study, and Dr. Kidd has done a thorough and fair job in this excellent book. There is much to learn and lament about this tragic figure. Links & Show Notes: Dr. Kidd’s book . S...
Jul 06, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Episode Overview: Dr. George Yancey stopped by to talk with Austin about his new book Beyond Racial Division. He talks about his mutual accountability framework and the importance of moral persuasion. This hopeful conversation lays out ways forward in what seems at times like a discouraging topic. Dr. Yancey reminds us that God is still working and that normal Christian categories can apply to conversations about race. Links & Show Notes: Dr. Yancey’s new book . Dr. Yancey’s essay for us on ...
Jun 29, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Episode Overview: This episode was prompted by several of our favorite people leaving social media. Our friends Ray Ortlund and Jackie Hill Perry announced (independently from each other) that they would be leaving social media due to unkind, discouraging behavior seeming to dominate sites like Twitter and Facebook. Isaac and Austin talk about how Christians should view social media and our participation in it. Links & Show Notes: Isaac’s article on tone . Austin’s article on speech . Suppor...
Jun 22, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Episode Overview: Should Christians get political? Should our politics stop at the church’s front door? Why are Christians who talk about race accused of bringing politics into Christianity? Isaac and Austin talk discuss these issues and make that case that Christians need to be OK with folks disagreeing with us. Links & Show Notes: Austin’s article on being a political pharisee and article following the last presidential election. Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Ricketts. Supp...
Jun 15, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Episode Overview: Just a note to let you know there is not a new episode this week, but check the feed this time next week for new content. Grace and Peace Links & Show Notes: Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Ricketts. Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us on Instagram and keep exploring our website. Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear more!...
Jun 01, 2022•26 sec•Season 1Ep. 88
Episode Overview: There are some really good books about race written from a Christian perspective. Austin and Isaac highlight some of our favorite resources and explain how best to use them when reading by yourself or with others. Take up and read! We hope you pray for fruit from the good resources being published right now. Links & Show Notes: Jarvis Williams’ books . Derwin Gray’s books . George Yancey’s books . Shai Linne’s book . Isaac’s book . Isaac’s article cautioning folks to read b...
May 18, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Episode Overview: We’re sorry for the audio quality on this one. We recorded this on the road and one of our mics malfunctioned. We decided to post the interview despite the sub-par audio because Bobby is just so good. “Bible Bobby” as he is known, has been a faithful minister for decades in California. He has seen times changes and offers his perspective on where we’ve come from and how far we have yet to go, in regards to racism. Links & Show Notes: You can read Bobby’s articles he wrote f...
May 04, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Episode Overview: This is a different kind of episode than anything we’ve ever put out. On March 3, 2022, Jan Adams passed into glory. She was the mother of UWP founder, Isaac Adams. Isaac talks about his mom and the impact she had on him. She was a woman committed to prayer, and we see her fingerprints all around our ministry. Please pray for her family as they grieve her sudden passing. Links & Show Notes: Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Ricketts. Support the show To learn mo...
Apr 20, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Episode Overview: Pastor Marty Duren joined the show to talk about growing up in church in the South and what ministry has looked like over the years. We covered culture, politics, and more. Hope you’re encouraged by the conversation. Links & Show Notes: Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Ricketts. Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us on Instagram and keep exploring our website. Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using y...
Apr 06, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Episode Overview: Alicia Akins, friend of the ministry and author of the new book, Invitations to Abundance joined the show to talk about how growing up and living in so many places amongst so many people has informed her perspective as an author. We also discuss her excellent new book, which we encourage you to get and read! Links & Show Notes: Alicia’s book . Her article in the Atlantic . Her articles here , here , here and here for us. Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Rickett...
Mar 23, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Episode Overview: We covered a lot of ground in this one. Returning to the podcast for our season nine opener is Dr. Nate Brooks, professor of counseling at RTS Charlotte. Nate and Austin discussed the nature of human beings, how we change, different kinds of change, and the hope this represents for human society. Links & Show Notes: Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Ricketts. Support the show To learn more about United? We Pray, follow us on Instagram and keep exploring our webs...
Mar 09, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 82
" Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing." -1 Peter 3:8-9 (CSB) Episode Overview: In the season finale, Isaac and Austin discuss intent behind words and actions. All of us can cause damage we did not intend. We encourage you to consider the effects of words and actions, not on...
Jan 10, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing. -1 Peter 3:8-9 (CSB) Episode Overview: In the season finale, Isaac and Austin discuss intent behind words and actions. All of us can cause damage we did not intend. We encourage you to consider the effects of words and actions, not only ...
Dec 23, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Episode Overview: In this special episode, Isaac and Austin talk through books we recommend for Christians thinking about ethnic unity. By no means are these recommendations exhaustive, but we hope it’s a good start. Tolle Lege! Links & Show Notes: Book responses for Redemptive Kingdom Diversity , New Reformation , Building a Multiethnic Church , Beyond Racial Gridlock , Consumed By Hate Redeemed by Love , and The Warmth of Other Suns. Produced by Josh Deng with editing by Roshane Ricketts. ...
Dec 08, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 79
“ He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’ “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even ...
Nov 24, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 78
“ And we exhort you, brothers and sisters: warn those who are idle,[ b ] comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient with everyone” -1 Thessalonians 5:14 CSB Episode Overview: Different people in different situations require different responses from us. Not every offense requires a correction. Only with God’s help can we have the wisdom needed to respond as we ought. Links & Show Notes: Austin’s article on avoiding slander. Isaac’s article on tone. Isaac’s article on resources . Eric ...
Nov 10, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 77
“ After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!” -Revelation 7:9-10 CSB Episode Overview: Dr. Jarvis Williams joined us to discuss his new book, Redemptive Kingdom Diversity: A Biblical Theol...
Oct 27, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 75
“Without guidance, a people will fall, but with many counselors there is deliverance.” -Proverbs 11:14 CSB Episode Overview: Christians believe that the Bible is not only true, but also clear. So why is it that we can also say that ethnic diversity increases our knowledge of the Bible? Dr. Nate Brooks of Reformed Theological Seminary joined us to discuss diversity as one of the many good gifts God has given us to help enrich our understanding of His word. Links & Show Notes: Dr. Brooks’ arti...
Oct 13, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 75
“Rest in God alone, my soul, for my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will not be shaken. My salvation and glory depend on God, my strong rock. My refuge is in God. Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before him. God is our refuge. Selah." - Psalm 62:5-8 (CSB) Episode Overview: Some conversations, especially those had over a long period of time, are really hard. They tax us. Recognizing our need for rest is part of what it means t...
Sep 29, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 74
“Come and listen, all who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me. I cried out to him with my mouth, and praise was on my tongue." - Psalm 66:6-7 (CSB) Episode Overview As we launch season 8 of the podcast, we paused to thank God for the work being done in Isaac and Austin’s lives and ministries. We also answered the questions you all sent in. Keep those coming! We will get to more questions in subsequent mailbag episodes. Links & Show Notes: Buy The New Reformation , Shai Linne’s ...
Sep 15, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Overview: We have asked contributors to our When I Recognized Race series to read their articles for this summer mini-series. In the final instalment of this series, we share this very heavy episode about an incident of racialized violence experienced by Danya Karina Albright, in her own words. To learn more about United? We Pray follow us on Twitter or our website . Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear more! Produced by ...
Aug 26, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Overview: We have asked contributors to our When I Recognized Race series to read their articles for this summer mini-series. In this episode, Rayshawn Graves shares how his father helped him as he struggled against feeling the pressure to think that being white was better than being black. To learn more about United? We Pray follow us on Twitter or our website . Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear more! Produced by Josh...
Aug 19, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Overview: We have asked contributors to our When I Recognized Race series to read their articles for this summer mini-series. In this installment, Alicia Akins reflects on coming to love something she used to hate about herself—her black skin. To learn more about United? We Pray follow us on Twitter or our website . Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear more! Produced by Josh Deng . Support the show To learn more about Uni...
Aug 12, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Overview: We have asked contributors to our When I Recognized Race series to read their articles for this summer mini-series. In this installment, Nate Brooks remembers how a story shared by one of his Bible professors did not fit with his own understanding about the world. To learn more about United? We Pray follow us on Twitter or our website . Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear more! Produced by Josh Deng with editin...
Aug 05, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Overview: We have asked contributors to our When I Recognized Race series to read their articles for this summer mini-series. In this installment, Alejandra Hargrave shares how her experience with an identification form forced her at a young age to reckon with how her skin color places her in society. To learn more about United? We Pray follow us on Twitter or our website . Please consider rating the podcast on Apple Podcasts , and subscribe using your favorite podcast client to hear more! Produ...
Jul 29, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 68
