A Conversation on Black Preaching with Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Happy Black History Month! In this episode we talk about black preaching with our esteemed guest, the Reverend Dr. Kenyatta R. Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert is Associate Professor of Homiletics at the Howard University School of Divinity. He is author of The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching, A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights, and his forthcoming book Exodus Preaching: Crafting Sermons on Justice and Hope. You can follow him on twitter @preachingproj. In this conversation, we talk about: -Dr. Gilbert’s favorite sermons -Black Preaching as an art form -The centrality of Black Preaching in the Black Church -The church’s response to Trumpism -How evangelicals hijacked the message of Christianity Don’t forget to join us for the first stop of our PTM Live Tour in Pensacola, Florida on Saturday, February 17th. You can get your tickets today! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pass-the-mic-live-tour-black-panther-movie-tickets-42364250614 Support this podcast on patreon at www.patreon.com/PassTheMic Hosts: Jemar Tisby (twitter.com/JemarTisby) Tyler Burns (twitter.com/Burns23) Producer: Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Podastery Studios (twitter.com/Podastery) Lean More: Pass The Mic - www.PassTheMicPodcast.com (twitter.com/_PassTheMic) The Witness - www.TheWitnessBCC.com (twitter.com/WitnessBCC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.7	And we would love to thank you in person,. Our first tour stop on the PTM live tour. It's rapidly approaching. And as most of you know, we're going to see Black Panther, the movie event of the year, all together on Saturday, February 17 in my hood, my city, Pensacola, Florida, and people have been talking about Pensacola, they're like, it's not Dallas, not LA, it's not Chicago, blah, blah, blah,
1:54.3	blah, okay, whatever. Pensacola is an amazing city, it's Paradise and I look forward to seeing
1:59.8	you guys there with us at the Black Panther event. We're going to have a great discussion after
2:06.0	we watched the movie over some good food, some food that you are going to like, and also
2:11.4	we're going to be recording a podcast. It's going to be an
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