Pass the Mic Podcasts

Michael Emerson, Divided By Faith, and Pass the Mic

The Witness

Michael Emerson joins Tyler Burns and Jemar Tisby on this week’s episode of Pass The Mic to discuss Divided By Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, the legacy of the book, its impact on The Witness, as well as his family’s faith journey and current work.

The author of 15 books and over 100 other publications, Michael O. Emerson, is recognized as a national leader in the study of race and religion and has won several awards for his scholarship. He is the principal investigator of the largest study of race and religion ever conducted in the United States, funded by the Lilly Endowment.

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The Witness

The Witness is a non-profit, faith-based media organization that engages issues of religion, race, justice, and culture from a biblical perspective. The Witness consciously draws on the expansive black church tradition to address matters of personal faith while also speaking to issues of public righteousness through blog posts, feature-length articles, podcasts, and live reporting.