On the latest TC podcast, we’re talking “white saviors,” particularly as they relate to two big-screen book adaptations: Passing and Dune.

Show Notes

Slate article: "Is Dune a White Savior Narrative?"

New York Times essay: "How I Learned That Jesus Was Black."

Ryan Guerra on "Saving the Lost (including 1984's Dune)."

Josh on Band Aid 30.

John J. Thompson's Spotify playlist.

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This Episode's Contributors

Claude Atcho serves as the pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Charlottesville, Va. He has previously served as a church planter and an adjunct English professor in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just. Follow him on Twitter @claudeatcho.

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Kathryn Freeman is a Masters of Divinity student at Baylor University's Truett Seminary. She also holds degrees from the University of Texas School of Law and Texas A&M University. She lives in Austin, Texas. You can follow her on Twitter @kathrynannette.

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Josh Larsen is editor of Think Christian and host/producer of the TC podcast. He's also the co-host of Filmspotting, as well as the author of Movies Are Prayers and Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies. You can connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, and Letterboxd.

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