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S4 EP 4: Healing Through Grace with Lisa Fields
In this episode, Mark and Branden sit down with Lisa Fields, the founder of the Jude 3 Project, to discuss the complexities of race, politics, and social justice in Am...
S4 Ep 3: Resisting Divide and Embracing True Community with Derek Minor
In this episode, Mark and Branden explore the complexities of belonging and acceptance in today’s fragmented culture. Joined by artist and leader Derek Minor, who shar...
S4 Ep 2: Deconstructing Evangelicalism with Brian Recker
In this episode, Mark and Branden delve into the complex layers of identity with guest Brian Recker, who has critically reexamined the evangelical environment. Brian s...
S4 Ep 1: Can We Find Common Ground?
After a two-year hiatus, hosts Branden Polk and Mark Bauer explore the personal and societal upheavals experienced during their absence. They discuss the importance of...
S4 Trailer: Welcome Back to Behind the Seen
Welcome to 'Behind the Scene' with Brandon Polk and Mark Bauer, a podcast dedicated to exploring the complex layers of identity and addressing challenging topics such ...
S3 Ep. 6 Victim or Villain with Karith Foster
Continuing with our #CheckTheBox theme for this season, special guest Karith Foster joins us to discuss two boxes we tend to put people in when it comes to the race co...
S3 Ep. 5: Conscious Masculinity
What are barriers to men living conscious, compassionate, connected lives in their homes and communities? How does this apply to the race conversation? Guest: Addison ...
S3 Ep. 4: Policing Behavior and the Preservation of Power
In this episode, we discuss policing behavior (behavior of police) and the act of policing other people's behavior in our day-to-day lives. Recent civil unrest around ...
S3 Ep. 3: The Racism of the White Moderate
In this episode we discuss the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. A lot of white people are being confronted for the first time with the injustice of racism and unsure how to p...
S3 Ep. 2: Is Love Really Blind?
Before the Tiger King, the quarantine binge was the reality show Love is Blind, which puts strangers in neighboring cubes and allows them to get to know one another wi...
S3 Ep. 1: Racial Justice in a Post-COVID World
Has coronavirus altered how you view racial disparity? Has it amplified it? Who are the populations most affected by coronavirus disruptions? Disruptions of this magni...
S2 Ep. 6: What is Fear Trying to Tell You?
This is actually a replay of one of our favorite episodes from last season. I've experienced a lot of fear the last few weeks around quitting my job and moving to Los ...
S2 Ep. 5: Forgiveness without Repentance, a Review of the Emanuel Documentary
In this episode, we review the Emanuel documentary, which covers the history of the black church in Charleston leading up to the church shooting in 2015 by Dylan Roof ...
S2 Ep. 4: Understanding Colorism
In the last episode on racism in dating, Todrick Hall briefly touched on something that a lot of listeners picked up on: Colorism—the idea that whiteness has defined s...
S2 Ep. 3: Racism in Dating (w/ special guest Todrick Hall)
In a freewheeling conversation about dating, singer/songwriter/producer Todrick Hall joins Behind the Seen to discuss our racial “preferences,” how we acquire those pr...
S2 Ep. 2: Code Violations | #BeSeen
In today's episode, we're talking about code violations. We have our own personal codes, informed by religious texts or some other source, that we violate every day. A...
S2 Ep. 1: Being Human | #BeSeen
Welcome back to Season 2 of Behind the Seen! We kick off season 2 with an episode on what it means to be human. A lot of our experience as humans involves stumbling th...
BONUS Episode: Oscar Reaction and Black Representation in Pop Culture
The Oscars never fails to provide good fodder for race discussions and this year proved no different. Despite the diverse representation of presenters throughout the p...
Episode 17: Racism, Slavery and the Church
In this episode, we take the audio from our first Facebook Live that included special guest Bill Riedel, pastor of Redemption Hill Church in Washington DC. We brought ...
Episode 16: Justification
In this episode, we discuss Justification, a really strong word used both in a legal context and a theological context. Justification is the act of showing something t...
Episode 15: How to Talk to Your Relatives About Politics at Thanksgiving
In this episode, we take a different approach to those articles you see all over the place this time of year that tell you how to talk to your relatives about politics...
Episode 14: Understanding Dehumanization
In this episode, we discuss Dehumanization, which is a pretty strong word but one that we all engage in in some degree or another. Dehumanization occurs when we don’t ...
Episode 13: The Importance of Safe Spaces — Even for White People
In this episode, we discuss the importance of safe spaces. They are certainly important for minority or marginalized people to associate to freely air grievances witho...
Episode 12: The Politics of Identity
In today's episode, we discuss how identity politics--the associating of people around social groups by which they identify--is often necessary to advancing equity whe...
Episode 11: White Fragility
In this episode we discuss the ego, and how the ego creates stories about ourselves and the world in a way to understand reality. Think of it as a sort of programming....
Episode 10: Conforming to Expectations
Today we’re going to talk about expectations, and how our expectations guide so many of our daily actions and how we see and interact with the world. So what are expec...
Episode 9: Reputation
Today's episode coincides with Columbus Day, a day dedicated to honoring a man for his contributions to history, but who also committed horrific atrocities in the name...
Episode 8: Generational Trauma
We all know that we inherit physical characteristics from our parents, but new understandings around a relatively new field called epigenetics, meaning “outside of gen...
Episode 7: Understanding Privilege
Privilege is a word given to an idea that says there are certain advantages that some people have access to based solely on their race, gender or economic status. Thes...
Episode 6: Are You Listening?
In this episode, we delve a little deeper into what it means to actually listen. It’s one thing to hear someone, but it’s another thing to actually understand what the...
