From Aretha to Botham: Death in the Black Community

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jemar and Tyler talk about the death of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. On their hiatus, the world watched her funeral and came away with mixed reactions. A few weeks later, our community was rocked by the unjust killing of Botham Shem Jean. How should we deal with all this death? Listen as we give a theology on death, injustice, and lament. 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.
0:08.0	Helping put the story of the Bible into its cultural context so you can apply it to your life.
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0:19.0	Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.
0:27.0	Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another episode of Past the Mic. Dynamic Voices for a
0:36.8	diverse church powered by the Witness of Black Christian Collective. I'm your
0:41.2	host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter at Burns 23
0:44.7	Follow at your own risk. And joining me as always is the president of the
0:49.1	witness, the man, the myth, the legend, Mr Blue Check verified himself.
0:53.2	Jamar Tisbee, what's going on brother?
0:55.2	How you doing?
0:56.3	Hey man, it's good, it's great, it's always fun to be back on the mic
1:00.3	with you, especially just to be able to catch up with you, man. It feels like a privilege.
1:05.2	You've been busy, you've been doing some things, what you've been up to.
1:09.4	Man, see, I knew you was going to spring something weird on me the way you started a podcast I was like
1:13.7	hold up what's he about to do?
1:15.7	Yeah you always talk about Blue Check verified but you you you going worldwide now
1:20.4	you're talking you you're in the halls of power speaking truth of power.
1:26.0	Listen man, so I have the opportunity to work with another organization
1:30.4	alongside the witness which is called a justice conference and so we recently just had some justice institutes which are basically deep dives into sectors of justice in the American context and so the first one that we did was actually in DC and we talked
1:45.6	about immigration and advocacy and what's a connector to that conference is we had the opportunity
1:50.2	to go to Capitol Hill and talk with the staff of or the staffs I should say of
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