Thoroughly Equipped

Just a shout out to all those who listen to TE on a regular basis and a quick update informing you all on the delay in the next episode and what to look forward to in season 3. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 39 Presenting Be the Bridge’s beginnings, history, and impact since it’s founding in 2016. Topics include: the success of Morrison’s Be the Bridge book How Be the Bridge ministry was started It’s growth since 2016 How it enters the local churches Jennie Allen’s involvement Is Anti-racism part of Christian discipleship? May this epi...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 38 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been a hot topic in the economic sphere, but it’s actually not limited there. This anti-racist infiltration has made a huge mark in the education realm and now has for the last couple of years gained access to Christian institutions and organizations. Under the last step given to white bridge builders in the Be the Bridge...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 37 Be the Bridge Ministry has it’s white bridge builders start with teaching them about their whiteness; hoping to help them learn humility and grow in racial righteousness. The Be The Bridge 101 Guide: Foundational Principals Every White Bridge Builder Needs to Know helps gives white people 4 steps to addressing their whiteness; White Identity, White Pri...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 36 Latasha Morrison made the New York Times Best Seller list for her book Be The Bridge. While the book informs Christians of the importance of racial reconciliation, it’s also the gateway into her training program/ministry of the same name. To become a Bridge Builder, we are told to follow the Be the Bridge Face Book group. In signing up for the group AL...

Exposing how Be The Bridge’s trains Christians to become Ant-Racists. Be The Bridge teaches its Bridge Builders to believe that God reflects certain aspects of His image in ethnicities; perpetuating a belief that its members need to adopt collective practices to sanctify them and teach them to be color brave and not color blind. Topics Include: What is Racism as taught by Ibram X. Kendi and how ca...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 34 Exposing how Be The Bridge presupposes the postmodern theory of Intersectionality and trains people up in the ministry to identify racism through historical narratives and the stand points of POC. Topics: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality What is Intersectionality? What is Post-modern Theory? What is Standpoint Epistemology? How is SE used to identi...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 33 Exposing how the American Christian Church is accepting the tenants of Critical Race Theory through Be the Bridge's ministry on racial reconciliation. This "ministry" trains people to believe that racism is systemic and white people are complicit and/or are racist by perpetuating the system because they do not act against it through leveraging their privileg...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.32 What is Critical Race Theory? What does it teach? Should Critical Race Theory be used as an analytical tool? And is this theory something you should worry about? In this episode I interview Andrew Rappaport from the Rapp Report to tackle these questions. Before we dive into the Be the Bridge ministry and other racial reconciliation ministries promoted at the IF:Gather...

On this episode, I present to you my discussion with Jon Harris from The Conversations That Matter YT Channel, where we discuss the Social Gospel and the  infiltration of Social Justice ideology in the church today. Jon Harris is the author of Christianity and Social Justice and Social Justice Goes to Church, both which were incredibly informative on the Social Gospel and Social Justice. I’ve been...

What does IF:Equip's Arise teach about Jesus and Social Justice? IF:Equip's Arise, claims that Jesus’ ministry was mostly focused on the marginalized, oppressed, and poor in society. His purpose was to always set free, and heal and that these acts of mercy and compassion were Jesus fighting for justice. In this episode we will look at how IF:Equip's Arise presents Jesus. We will look at what they...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 30 IF:Equip's Arise, claims that the church is the light of the world whose mission is to bring restoration to it by "fighting against the darkness". Today we will look at the other 2 foundations IF:Equip's Arise presents for why Christian (specifically Christian women) are to fight for justice…that, as followers of Christ, we are the light of the world and mus...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 29 Is justice a Gospel issue? Justice is an important issue that is at the foundation of the Gospel. It has been a highly charged topic in our society today. God is just therefore justice should be important to the Christian. But to exercise justice it must be rightly defined, depend on who God is, and should be guided by God's word. We can claim God is just bu...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 28 Continuing our look at Dr. Curt Thompson's teachings.  Dr. Curt Thompson, Visionary Leader of the Center for Being Known, is a psychiatrist who speaks at Jennie Allen's IF:Gathering and IF:Lead Conferences. He has spoken at many conferences including the Torrey 2016 Conference and the Jubilee 2022 Online Conference; has been on the Red Ink Revival Podcast, t...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 27 Continuing our look at Dr. Curt Thompson's teachings. Dr. Curt Thompson, Visionary Leader of the Center for Being Known, is a pshyciatrist who speaks at Jennie Allen's IF:Gathering and IF:Lead Conferences. He has spoken at many conferences including the Torrey 2016 Conference and the Jubilee 2022 Online Conference; has been on the Red Ink Revival Podcast, th...

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 26 Continuing our look at IF:'s incorporation of the analytical tool of Psychology as Dr. Curt Thompson (a regular speaker at the IF:Gathering and IF:Lead conferences) integrates Interpersonal Neurobiology with Scripture. I hope to show you how he psychoanalyzes the Fall in Genesis 3 and psychologizes sin to make our problem more about shame instead of transgre...

Thoroughly Equipped S. 2 Ep 25 Starting the final portion of our critique of the IF: Ministry; I present a message given by Dr. Curt Thompson who has been a reoccurring speaker at the IF: Conferences for the past couple of years. Dr. Curt Thompson is a Psychotherapist who has spoken on podcasts, at colleges, conferences, and YouTube channels where he teaches on the soul, shame, desire and being kn...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.23 In this episode we I take some time to present to you who is touted as the Spiritual Masters in the IF:Equip Enjoying Jesus study. It's a long episode. But it's worth educating yourself in what these Christian Mystics teach and why it contradicts the Gospel so we can see the spiritual DANGER they pose. It should make us ask why does Jennie Allen include them in this s...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep. 22 In this episode we look at Mysticism and more specifically Christian Mysticism. The purpose of this episode is to lay the foundation for the next episode where we will look at those IF:Equip quoted in the Enjoying Jesus study as some of the Spiritual Masters who teach on the Spiritual Disciplines. Topics include: What is Mysticism? What is Christian Mysticism? What d...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.21 Starting the 4th part of TE's series on Jennie Allen's IF: ministry looking at what is presented as discipleship tools. In this episode we look at an IF:Equip study titled Enjoying Jesus which teaches it's disciples to implement Spiritual Disciplines as the means to draw closer and be intimate with God, and filled with the Holy Spirit. Topics discussed: What are Spiri...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.20 Today I had the pleasure to talk with Dr. Rhenn Cherry about the use of the Enneagram as a Christian tool. Topics Discussed: His book Enneagram Theology: Is it Christian? The McCord's teachings on the Enneagram from their books The gospel according to the McCord's and what is missing Their connection to Richard Rohr What is the appeal of tools like the Enneagram Shoul...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.19 Starting the 4th part of TE's critique of the IF: women's ministry where we will look at a tool promoted at the 2019 IF:Lead Conference- the Enneagram. Beth McCord, Chief Executive Officer of YourEnneagramCoach.com gives a presentation to the ladies explaining the importance and purpose of using the Enneagram to "be the person [they] always wanted to be" and assist th...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.18 In this Titus 2 Time episode I bring in a co-host, Amy Russo from Grace & Peace Radio, to continue our talk about the book Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley. Topics Discussed: The Golden Age of Domesticity The effects of the Industrial Revolution on the home The change from the home contributing to the economy to the home becoming a place of consumption and this e...

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.17 In this Titus 2 Time episode I bring in a co-host, Amy Russo from Grace & Peace Radio, to talk about the book Radical Womanhood by Carolyn McCulley. Topics discussed: The women behind feminism First, Second, and Third wave feminism The hypocrisy within the movement Submission and the Gospel May this episode bless you and bring glory to God! Resources:  Radical Womanho...

Thoroughly Equipped  S.2 Extra Episode While I study and work on Part 4 of TE's IF: critique, I thought I'd share with you a workshop I presented at a Home Education Conference held at Victory Bible Church in Hammonton, NJ. This is the 2nd of two workshops I presented. To listen to the first workshop titled: Thinking Biblically About Education click here. I hope you enjoy as we look at wisdom, how...