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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\nLast week, a video was leaked of a white man shooting and killing Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery in his neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia. While Arbery\u2019s death occurred in February, the alleged shooter and his father were only arrested last week following a massive public uproar following the release of the tape.\nMany Christians, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, have condemned the Arbery\u2019s killing. But widespread condemnation from the church for these types of killings was not always the case.For years, for white Christians, \u201cthe critique of lynching rarely moved beyond \u2018Lynching is anarchy, and we need to kind of reinforce the rule of law,\u2019\u201d said Malcolm Foley, a PhD candidate in Baylor University\u2019s Department of Religion, whose dissertation examines African-American Christian responses to lynching from the late 19th century to the early 20th century,\nNot surprisingly, the black church took a much more forceful response to these atrocities.\u201cMany black pastors were commenting on this and saying, \u2018If you can either stand in a mob of thousands of people and watch a black man be set on fire alive, or if you are one of the people holding the rifles that riddled this body with bullets, you're most likely not a Christian,\u2019\u201d said Foley, who is also the director of discipleship at Mosaic Waco.\nFoley joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss the colonial history of lynching, how beliefs about white women provided justification for this violence, and how lynchings changed the theology of the black and white church.\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more \nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts \nFollow the podcast on Twitter \nFollow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen\nFollow our guest on Twitter: Malcolm Foley\nMusic by Sweeps \nQuick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder \nThe transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices