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Just Thinking Podcast

EP # 004 | Social Activism and the Black Church

Just Thinking Podcast

Darrell Harrison & Virgil Walker

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.94.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

 
Is the black church still relevant to today’? Or has it betrayed its legacy of social activism? In this episode of Just Thinking, Darrell and Virgil chop up the topic of how a perceived lack of social activism is causing many black millennial Christians to leave the church and how the words of John Calvin can help reorient us to a proper view of justice in today’s society.

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* Why Are Millennials Leaving the Black Church? (Atlanta Black Star)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Jess Thinking. With host, there are Harrison and Virgil Walker bringing you week to week cultural apologetics as well as social issue from a biblical world view. This is Jess Thinking. Let's thank you.

0:24.0

Hey, you're back and I'm back. We're back brother. What do you think about that? We back. We back player.

0:31.0

It's another episode of just thinking podcast man. I'm glad to be back. Now we feel like we didn't really take a week off. I don't know if I should put you on blast. I'm leaving alone.

0:47.0

No, no, no, you know, you know, you know what I'm gonna put myself on blast. I'm gonna put myself on blast.

0:54.0

Okay. Let me go ahead and apologize to all the listeners because I know we made a commitment to get you guys a new episode every Friday.

1:01.0

Yeah. And listen, let me go ahead and put verse to the side because this wasn't on verse. This was all on me. I've told you guys for a couple weeks. I'm kind of knew it. This podcast and thing and last week it showed.

1:12.0

So let me just go ahead and tell us is this tell the truth Monday bird. Tell the truth.

1:17.0

Monday, man. Tell the truth. Shame to tell the truth. So we. Right. That sounds familiar.

1:25.0

So yeah, man. Like we do every Monday, even at eight o'clock Eastern, me and Virge, we dial in. We do our thing. We cut the episode. We give it over to the Wayne. Let him EQ it. Do his magic.

1:39.0

And that's what happened last Monday. Virgin, I spent word, 45, 50 minutes recording the episode. 48 minutes somewhere in there.

1:48.0

Man, and it wasn't until after we hung up that I realized my mic wasn't turned on. But he was the crazy part. I could. I could hear you crystal clear. I mean, I.

1:59.0

Yeah. I'm like, like we're talking right now. I could hear you. So here's the thing. No, I'm thinking. Okay. So it probably.

2:07.0

Defaulted right to the microphone on the laptop. I got you know that I probably got a good quality mic on the laptop as well. But when D tried to EQ it, obviously he noticed there was a difference in the sound quality.

2:20.0

Gotcha. Gotcha.

2:22.0

When when Duane and I got together, man, later in the week, I just texted him. I think we were either texted a message in each other or Facebook.

2:30.0

And I told him I said, man, listen, we made a commitment to listeners that if we can't give him a high quality product every week, we don't give anything. Right.

2:40.0

So like Duane was like, Hey, man, it's your show. So I made the call man. I made the call that executive decision made that executive decision, man. And that said, no, we're not going to go with it.

2:51.0

Because the quality wasn't what we are used to giving to our listeners. So I apologize to listeners, not making excuses, but I am kind of news of this podcast thing. But tonight, man, hey, the blue light on my mic was on all.

3:07.0

I was making sure the mic is on my mic.

3:10.0

Tonight, I'm just letting everybody know what the mic is on.

3:14.0

Good deal. Good deal.

3:16.0

So we good. Yeah, we're good. We're ready to go ready to do this thing live. As you say, man, I'm always it's always a blessing, man. I'm your wingman. You're you're a you're I'm riding shotgun man. You're doing what we've taken us down the down the road, man, letting us know what's up. So man, it's always always good.

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