Conversation with Anthony Pinn on Religion and Anti-Black Racism

This past week I had the sincere pleasure of joining Prof. Jeff Scholes (UCCS) as we hosted Prof. Anthony Pinn (Rice University) for “A Conversation on Religion and Anti-Black Racism.” During the discussion we touched on the relationship between religion and race here in the U.S., white evangelicals and Donald Trump, Pinn’s journey to eventually embracing secular humanism, and (at the end) a little bit on science fiction (specifically Octavia Butler’s classic Kindred). The whole talk runs about 90 minutes. The first 55 minutes is a discussion between Prof. Scholes, myself, and Prof. Pinn, and then we opened it up to questions posted on the YouTube live stream. You can view the recording here.

In addition to learning a great deal from the conversation, I am using this recording in my World Religions course in the units on Christianity as well as Atheism. I’ve also already heard from a number of students who attended that they learned a great deal.