Racism has been described as America’s original sin. While great strides have been made in the journey toward equality between blacks and whites, there still is much work to do.

In Episode 168 of the Influence Podcast, George P. Wood talks to Jemar Tisby about the history of racism in American Christianity, as well as what steps need to be taken for authentic racial reconciliation to occur.

Wood is executive editor of Influence magazine and the host of the Influence Podcast.

Tisby is author of The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Zondervan, 2019). He is president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, where he writes about race, religion, politics, and culture. He is also co-host of the Pass the Mic podcast. Tisby is a Ph.D. candidate in history from the University of Mississippi.