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“A Prophet and a Comforter” ft. Baylor University’s George Yancey I Saturdays at Seven – Season Three, Episode Thirty-Nine - Christian Scholar’s Review
In the thirty-ninth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with George Yancey, Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. Yancey opens by reflecting upon how he makes sense of race relations in the United States since 2010. While the tragic events involving individuals such as Trayvon Martin and George Floyd serve as watershed moments, Yancey also notes that the shifts in politics rooted in who occupies the executive branch also play critical roles. For a season, DEI and antiracism captured the interest of individuals in power. Presently, the reserve almost proves true. In the end, Yancey notes that the inability of those in power to relinquish power fuels an unproductive cycle from which the American public and, in some ways, the Church, has yet to free itself. Yancey then moves on to share how his initial interests in economics gravitated toward sociology as defined by his overriding conviction that the scholarship he is called to prepare should enhance the relationships individuals and groups share. In relation to the Church, Yancey contends scholars can play critical roles as long as they are willing to serve as prophets and comforters and refrain from the inclination to collapse into one convenient option or another. Such a perspective is one Yancey strives to offer in books he writes for scholars and books he writes for the Church. The key to doing so, however, according to Yancey is for scholars to engage in the ongoing process of cultivating intellectual humility.
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