Podcast: SHOUTING – Feature Conversation: Danté Stewart
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Danté Stewart about his new book, Shoutin’ in the Fire, a memoir about being Black and Christian in America. My guest co-host is Dr. Howard Schaap, professor of English at Dordt. Together we discuss:
- What it means to “shout in the fire,” holding onto an honest, vulnerable, and resilient faith amidst pain, anger, and despair.
- How his sense of the gospel of Jesus has been clarified and complicated over the course of his journey.
- The importance of “keeping our eyes on the body” as we live in this world.
- Literary and theological sources for the Black prophetic imagination, and how Danté found his writing voice.
Here is a link to Howard Schaap’s review at our online journal.
As mentioned in the intro, Danté mentions no less than 30 authors, and we have pulled together a list below:
Books mentioned by Danté:
Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped
Kiese Laymon, Heavy
Imani Perry, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Sarah Broom, The Yellow House
Darnell L. Moore, No Ashes in the Fire
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies
Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom
Austin Channing Brown, I’m Still Here
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Steven King, On Writing
N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (fiction)
Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets (fiction)
Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower (fiction)
Articles mentioned by Danté:
Elizabeth Alexander, “The Travon Generation”
Imani Perry, “Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.”
Authors mentioned by Danté:
James Baldwin
Toni Morrison
Deesha Philyaw
Maurice Ruffin
Jason Reynolds
Nikki Giovanni
James Cone
Kevin Quashie
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Willie James Jennings
Ashon Crawley
Gwendolyn Brooks
Zora Neale Hurston
Elizabeth Alexander
June Jordan
Amiri Baraka
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Justin Ariel Bailey works at the intersection of Christian theology, culture, and ministry. Having served as a pastor in a number of diverse settings, his research seeks to bridge gaps between church and academy, and the formational spaces where they overlap. He is the author of the book Reimagining Apologetics (IVP Academic, 2020) and the forthcoming volume Interpreting Your World (Baker Academic, 2022). He serves as associate professor of Theology at Dordt University and is the host of the In All Things podcast.
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Howard Schaap came to the study of literature and writing because he found it intensifies life. Putting words with experiences makes sense of those experiences, heightens them. Reading stories and poems--especially those recounting experiences different from your own--can crack open the dry, old shell of your life and allow you to grow into something new. Thus, his areas of interest include creative nonfiction (the focus of my MFA study), poetry writing, and ethnic American literature. He also has a passion for place, especially putting new words with old places in an effort to revitalize and renew our understanding of and care for those places.
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Dante Stewart is a writer and speaker whose voice has been featured on CNN, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, Comment Magazine, and more. As an up and coming voice, he writes and speaks into the areas of race, religion, and politics.
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