The Power of 'Online' Words_Discourse Analysis within Intercultural Church Missioloy_Discourse Transcript.pdf

The online discourse represented in this Appendix is a part of a larger project examining intercultural church missiology through discourse analysis. The discourse was collected from a prominent social media platform allowing users to comment on posts made by other users. The discourse (Appendix A) was collected from a recent (since 2020) social media post by a well-known Black male evangelical Christian music artist. In the post, the music artist portrayed a picture of books with commentary explanation of how White evangelical Christians can become better informed about issues of race and racial justice for Black Americans. The discourse is composed of an extended dialogue block including forty-six comments spanning three hours. Ten commenters participated, representing various American men and women of diverse racial backgrounds and who identify as Christian. All data was collected from public pages and is publicly available. Commenter demographics were verified wherever possible and names changed as a privacy measure.