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Aug 2024
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[Faith] Episode 43: Yolanda Pierce - Nob...

PETER ENNS AND JARED BYAS
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In this episode of Faith for Normal People, Jared and Angela Parker talk to Yolanda Pierce about the different paths of deconstruction, how womanist and intersectional theology provides plenty good room, and why true multicultural diversity is more than just different faces in a shared space. 

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