Phillip sits down with Steve Coble and Candace Jones at Impact to discuss the role of the conference, the importance of seminary, and the use of the arts in ministry. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Credit: Pass The Mic is fully produced by Podastery Studios. Visit www.Studio.podastery.com to discover what Podastery can do for you. [Tweet ““Theological education allows you […]
Jameis Winston is an incredible athlete. The Heisman Trophy-winning Florida State quarterback is as unique as his first name, with prototypical size, arm strength and physical attributes to complement his football talent. Yet, he was still the object of ridicule following his team’s historic National Championship win. When We Judge In post-game interviews, an excited […]
Jemar & Phillip sit down with author Trillia Newbell to discuss her new book, interracial marriage, and race in the church. Suggested Tweets: [Tweet “Wouldnt it be sad if the church just adopted something trendy and it wasn’t about the gospel?”] [Tweet “No one needs another trend, what we need are churches that love Jesus […]
In this series, we’ve defined Afrocentricity, the church and briefly examined incompatible parts of Afrocentricity and Christianity. However, we don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Even though the Bible is not an a-cultural book, the gospel does critique every culture and cultural expression. And the critique is not only negative! So, […]
I remember the first time I ever realized that a story could center around somebody who looked like me. I was in fourth grade at a predominately white private school, and, during one of our trips to the library, I stumbled upon Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. It came highly recommended by one of my […]
Jemar asks Pastor John what the pursuit of racial harmony will look like for him in this next phase of life?
Given the definitions of Afrocentricity and the Church (in part 1 and 2 of this series), it’s clear that the defined Afrocentric worldview should not be uncritically incorporated into the Black Church. To do so would inevitably lead to compromising aspects of Christ’s gospel. I would go so far as to say that doing so […]
Pastor John talks about the victories he’s experienced in pursuing racial harmony as well as the scars he’s accumulated. Suggested Tweets [Tweet “Piper: “It feels like a victory that we’re talking…I don’t mean a victory of mine but of God.””] [Tweet “”I’m really in this theologically. I’m not in this racially, first. I’m in this […]
Trillia Newbell is the author of United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity (Moody Publishers, March 2014). Her writings on issues of faith, family, and diversity have been published in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, Desiring God, True Woman, The Resurgance, The Gospel Coalition, and more. She currently is the consultant on Women’s Initiatives for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern […]
This week Pastor John sits down with co-founder and Vice President, Phillip Holmes, to discuss what evangelicals can learn from the dialogue between Doug Wilson and Thabiti Anyabwile. Tweet this: [Tweet “Doug said in his whole life had no one had treated him with as much respect as Thabiti.”] [Tweet “”Be like those men in […]
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Jemar & Phillip are joined by Cameron Triggs as they discuss the impact of the black church. Join them! Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Credit: Pass The Mic is fully produced by Podastery Studios. Visit www.Studio.podastery.com to discover what Podastery can do for you.
“Why doesn’t someone plant a church in a mobile home park?” One noted theologian (https://twitter.com/drantbradley) has often made this challenge to evangelical leaders and denominations that tend to focus their attention on the inner-city and “reaching” blacks. But we found a church planter who started a church in a low-income white community–a mobile home park–in […]
I can’t read it without my heart picking up its pace, my ears pulsing with the swell of the applause I would have heard had I been standing there that day, amid the crowd of people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. I can’t read it without a pang as […]
Forty-five years after his death, Martin Luther King, Jr. still serves as an important and often overlooked theological resource for the Church today. As one of the towering figures of the civil rights movement, most people know King as activist, ethicist and orator. However, far too few know King in the way he thought of […]
Jemar & Phillip sit down with pastor H.B. Charles Jr. to discuss his testimony, the black church, God’s providence, and his new book: It Happens After Prayer. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Credit: Pass The Mic is fully produced by Podastery Studios. Visit www.Studio.podastery.com to discover what Podastery can do for you.
One of the most popular blog posts atGentlemen’s Quarterly Magazine (GQ) in 2013 was a commentary giving men 10 reasons to stop viewing pornography. On GQ’s website the piece registered 24,000 thousand “like” on Facebook in just a few weeks. The popularity of the post could be a signal that Americans really are interested in discussing moral […]
“Days ago I was with my family in my home, and now you are telling me that all is lost?” These chilling lines from actor Chiwetel Ejiofor are just a piece of the pain displayed in the most talked-about movie of the year, “12 Years a Slave”. The Steve Mcqueen biopic, based on the real-life […]
I am only six months into planting a multi-ethnic church. What a journey! We have yet to begin our regular meetings and already I see a central lesson emerging from my experiences: there’s only one expert and it is not me. Jesus is the only real expert at creating the Christian community we call the […]
Not only are the arts at the forefront of a Reformed Black movement, they are essential to it. The Arts on Display The critical value of the arts in a Reformed African American context was impressed upon me at the Legacy Conference. This past year was my second time attending and I noticed anew the […]
