EP # 017 | The Pantherization of Black Christians
Just Thinking Podcast
Darrell Harrison & Virgil Walker
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The recently-released film Black Panther is proving to be a box-office blockbuster, having earned over $700M worldwide to-date. But is that news as positive for the church? In this episode of the Just Thinking podcast, Darrell and Virgil discuss, perhaps to the consternation of some, how the phenomenon that is the Black Panther movie is influencing many Christians, especially black Christians, in forming a theology of identity that is rooted primarily in ethnicity and ancestry rather than in Christ.
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* Is the Gospel No Longer Enough for Black Christians?
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* Black churches host screening of ‘Black Panther’ (Religion News Service)
* Pastor Jamal Bryant and Empowerment Temple dress in African attire for ‘Wakanda Sunday’ (Black Christian News Network)
* Tulsa Churches Plan ‘Black Panther’ Screenings (Tulsa World)
* Why Black Churches are Showing Unprecedented Support for ‘Black Panther’ (Black Christian News Network)
* What ‘Black Panther’ Mean for Christians (Christianity Today)
* The Question ‘Black Panther’ Is Really Asking (Lisa Robinson)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Thinking! With host Dera Harrison and Virgil Walker bringing you week-to-week |
| 0:15.6 | cultural apologetics as well as social issues from a biblical world view. This is Just |
| 0:21.1 | Thinking. Let's think. |
| 0:24.4 | We're back. It's another edition of The Just Thinking Podcast. I am Virgil Walker. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm Dera Harrison. What's going on? V Dub? What's going on my brother? How you doing man? |
| 0:42.0 | That's my black Panther voice. |
| 0:43.8 | Here you go. We can't we can't even get an intro in good. And you already start drama. |
| 0:57.4 | Bruh. We might as well get it out there right now man. This episode is going to probably make so many |
| 1:02.9 | people mad. Man. We might as well just put it out there right now. Yeah just start out with it man. |
| 1:11.3 | Just start out with it man. I was going to say I was intrigued with the topic with the |
| 1:19.2 | topic man that you had teed up for the night in light of all this happening man. I'm excited. |
| 1:29.3 | Yes. Should we hit with the topic? Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Just one sec. See that's why you |
| 1:37.5 | the wing man. That's why you the wing man. Get us back on track. Hold up. Hold up before you do |
| 1:44.8 | that because I want to I want to talk about just for a second man as we tee this up tonight. |
| 1:51.2 | I want to talk about man the last podcast that we did and how it is going bananas bro. |
| 2:03.6 | It's going bananas man. I mean I've had more people probably and again it's a lot of |
| 2:12.1 | in the past you know some of the same folks hit me up and those are you get here's how this |
| 2:16.6 | works man. You get you get your brothers who really care about you they know that you're starting |
| 2:21.2 | out something new they check it out and hey brother love what you did you know the good stuff |
| 2:26.4 | good stuff you know kind and I think for the most part they're being kind. |
| 2:31.1 | Yeah it's like investigating a murder of someone close to you right you work in concentric |
| 2:36.1 | circles right you work from inside out so you work from those closest to the victim |
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