Behind The Book: How Far to The Promised Land with Esau McCaulley

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Episode Description: It’s our final Behind the Book episode of the season! Christina and Ekemini are sitting at the table with Esau McCaulley to discuss is latest book, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South. They discuss legacy of faith, entrenched childhood poverty, and interracial marriage. Make sure to pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

Learn more about Esau McCaulley:

Rev. Esau McCaulley, PhD is an associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. His first book entitled Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance was published by T & T Clark in 2019. His second book Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope was published by IVP academic in 2020. It has won numerous awards, including Christianity Today’s book of the year. His first children’s book, Josie Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit, will be published by IVP in May 2022. He is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. His writings have also appeared in places such as Washington Post, The Religious New Service, and Christianity Today. He is married to Mandy, a pediatrician and navy reservist. Together, they have four wonderful children.

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0:00.0	This episode of Truths Table is brought to you by our NAACP Image Award nominated book,
0:06.1	Truths Table, Black Women's Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Get it where all books are sold.
0:30.0	Support our work at patreon.com slash truths table. Now pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us.
1:00.9	The devil don't want to see this recording. Listen, we have been through this episode,
1:05.6	if I'm going to go into the bag of my of my black theology root bag, then that means that this
1:11.5	is going to be an amazing episode because the enemy did not want us to record this episode. He
1:18.2	released those technology demons. That means that this is going to be a great episode.
1:22.6	Why? Didn't want it. Oh, Sleuth, we got him what had us. Oh, not Sleuth, but I don't
1:26.9	Sleuth, but all of it. They would episode all the many names of the devil. We could do it in
1:31.4	that actually episode. And we probably need to dust that off because the devil is right.
1:35.6	Oh, listen. Hold this. This is your right. I'm sorry. I'm all living in the black ass.
1:40.5	And it is. And it is. You can hear, you can hear, you can hear, I theological cousin in the
1:46.2	background. That's rejecting his voice. He would be frightening the men to the show. You know,
1:50.6	that's what they do. That's what they do. I'll do. Y'all be taking y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all,
1:54.9	y'all be bo-garden. But you know, what you talking right? You said, oh, this is right. So I'm
1:58.8	not going to regulate. I'm not going to regulate. But y'all, as you already know, we do have a man
2:07.2	at the table because we have our final behind the book episode for this season. And we are so
2:14.9	happy to bring our cousin, our play cousin, our brother, Esau McCulley to the table to talk about
2:22.0	his new book, a whole memory. Y'all stay right. You do entitled how far to the promise land,
2:29.5	okay? One black family story of hope and survival in the American South. Welcome to the table,
2:34.6	cousin. You saw how you doing, my brother. Thank you so much for having me. And I said this,
2:38.9	I think every single time I've been on a podcast, there are a few things that I look forward to more
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