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Pass The Mic

Behind the Mic: The Cost of Reconstruction

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This Behind the Mic was too good not to share! Tyler and Jemar talk about the cost of reconstruction after #LeaveLOUD, give a candid look at our democracy, and costly soul care in this moment.  In 2018, the New York Times published an article tiled: A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches that chronicled the plight of Black Christians who quietly exited their churches after their pastors and fellow believers failed to denounce state-sanctioned violence against Black people, white Christian Nationalism, systemic racism, and everyday bigotry. Since that time, things have gotten worse, not better. In recent months, we’ve seen a surge of Black leaders and congregants in predominantly white or multiethnic churches and Christian spaces decide that it’s time for them to go. We bear witness to the hurt, harm, and frustration that our siblings have experienced. Enough is enough. It’s time to #LeaveLOUD To #LeaveLOUD is to tell our stories, to name things for what they are, to take back the dignity we’ve lost while being in institutions that don’t value the fullness of the image of God within us, and to go where we are celebrated and not just tolerated. For the next several weeks, we will be sharing stories of Black Christians who have made the decision to #LeaveLOUD. We will also be providing thoughtful analysis, words of wisdom, and resources for those who have already left or who are discerning whether they should #LeaveLOUD. We invite you to share your stories using the hashtag #LeaveLOUD. The Witness BCC exists to empower Black Christians to live into the fullness of who God created us to be. You are not alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dynamic voices for a diverse church. This is Past the Mike.

0:13.1

Yeah, so for those of you who are unaware, we hop on every Tuesday to do what we call behind the

0:20.0

Mike and it's our desire to kind of bring you behind the scenes of what's going on and then

0:25.2

also to build on the episodes that we've had, whether the previous week, the day before,

0:29.6

or whatever it may be. Look at this brother, look at this boy. So I think my audio is messed up. Do

0:35.6

I sound like I'm in a glass? Yeah, you do. Let me turn me up and have fun, you know,

0:44.7

what you sound like me to do. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Anyway, we're good, we're good.

0:50.4

What up, fam? What's good, fam? How you know what? I ain't talk to you all week. It's good.

0:54.9

It's it's it's only Tuesday. No, what? Yeah, Tuesday.

0:59.8

You feel like it's been a 10 day week already, Doc? Oh, no, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt. So yeah,

1:05.4

yeah, everything, you know, it's a mile a minute. I'll be honest with you. I've got, you know,

1:09.3

the struggle, the writing struggle. So so obviously everybody knows I'm still working on the

1:14.5

dissertation, but I've also got three other edits I need to make, but it's going to be good. I'm

1:22.1

excited for this stuff to come out eventually. Y'all, yeah. So man, that's what's up, bro.

1:28.2

I want to shout out. It's in y'all. I've been in the lab. Oh, yeah, of course.

1:34.0

Yeah, of course, man. I can't wait to hear it and read it, man. I want to shout out a couple of

1:39.2

people, man, a guy named Caleb. I was on two podcasts today, man. Really dope. A guy named Caleb

1:46.4

runs a church in West Father, runs a church in Georgia. And we were on talking about sensory

1:52.8

and black voices. So that was really dope. And then I want to shout out my brother, Pastor Rohan

1:58.8

Samuels. He's actually an Edminson Canada. So yeah, so we just had a really dope conversation. I

2:07.3

think he said it's coming out tomorrow. He has a close-up podcast called Candid Conversations.

2:12.0

When we talk about, does a black church need to become multi-ethnic or multicultural?

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