486: Danté Stewart on Faith, Identity, and Finding a Voice

<p><strong>Danté Stewart</strong>&nbsp;is a speaker and a writer whose work in the areas of race, religion, and politics has been featured on CNN and in&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment,</em>&nbsp;and elsewhere. He received his BA in sociology from Clemson University and is currently studying at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.&nbsp;</p><p>In this episode, Eric and Dante discuss his&nbsp;book,&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780593239629" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle</em></a></p><p>But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed.&nbsp;<a href="https://oneyoufeed.net/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month.&nbsp;</a>It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you!</p><p>Danté Stewart and I Discuss Faith, Identity, Finding a Voice, and…</p><ul><li>His book,&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/16850/9780593239629" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle</em></a></li><li>Learning to care for ourselves as a whole person and not just the individual parts of us</li><li>How it’s easy to allow our work to mask who we really are</li><li>His experience of spending time in and assimilating to the predominantly white church and culture</li><li>The tension he felt between his different social identities</li><li>The paradox of being visible and invisible when you’re a marginalized person</li><li>How he needed to learn to give voice to his psychological pain, struggle, and rage</li><li>The issue with current value systems and social constructs that view white dominance as the norm</li><li>How he has learned that there isn’t just one answer, but many answers to how we can become a be