Episode 91: Interview: Bryan Stevenson

Pass The Mic

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Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Stevenson is an award-winning lawyer, speaker, as well as the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, that is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in our society. EJI has helped to provide justice for over 125 wrongfully condemned death row prisoners. He is the author of the powerful bestselling book Just Mercy and his latest project is the Memorial to Peace and Justice, also known as the National Lynching Memorial. It was an amazing privilege to have one of the greatest voices for truth and justice in our society today join us for this enlightening discussion. You can follow his work at eji.org. Sit back and enjoy our conversation with Mr. Bryan Stevenson. Episode 181 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) Lean More: Pass The Mic – www.PassTheMicPodcast.com (twitter.com/_PassTheMic) The Witness – www.TheWitnessBCC.com (twitter.com/TheWitnessBCC) Special Thanks To: Podastery – www.podastery.com (twitter.com/Podastery) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by the chronological life application study Bible, Second Edition.
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0:27.0	Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic. Greetings and God bless.
0:32.0	Welcome to another episode of Past the Mike
0:34.2	dynamic voices for a diverse church powered by the witness a black Christian
0:39.1	collective I am your host Tyler Burns you can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23
0:43.7	follow at your own risk.
0:45.6	And joining me as always is the president of the witness,
0:49.5	the man, the myth, the legend, Mr Blue Check,
0:51.3	verify himself, Jamar Tisbee, what's going on, brother?
0:54.4	Hey man, I could not be more thrilled about just all the stuff
0:57.9	that God is doing through the witness and pass the mic
1:01.5	and the exceptional guests that we've been able to get on lately.
1:06.0	It's just been a thrill and I think our listeners are going to be just as excited.
1:10.3	Yes, it is. We have an amazing conversation for you guys today and we're recording it so quickly that there's going to be a little bit different set up.
1:19.0	So if you're a little echo or something, look, we scrambled to get this recording to you guys as
1:24.0	quickly as we possibly could and our guest Jamar is none other than Mr.
1:29.2	Brian Stevenson bra that's right and Stevenson, bra.
1:33.0	Bra.
1:34.0	That's all we can say.
1:36.0	Bra.
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