Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.

Greetings and God bless. welcome to another episode of Pasta Mike, dynamic voices for a diverse church,

powered by the witness, a black Christian collective.

I'm your host Tyler Burns.

You can follow me on Twitter at Burns Clan

follow at your own risk. And of course our guest today is the Reverend Dr.

Esau Macaulay. If you are unaware of him, he is a New Testament scholar, a professor, and an Anglican priest. You might have seen

some of his writings in such prominent news outlets as the New York Times, where he is a contributing

opinion writer. Also, Christianity Today, The Washington Post,

and of course I'd like to throw in there

the Witness of Black Christian Collective as well.

He's the host of The Disruptors Podcast,

and we are talking today about his second book which is

extremely popular so many people across the country and across the world are

talking about it reading while black African American biblical interpretation as an exercise in hope.

Reading while Black looks at the tradition of African American biblical interpretation and

argues that the Bible rightly understood and read from a decidedly black

perspective can speak a word of hope to African Americans in the United States.

Now this was a very honest open conversation. We got into some sticky topics and I'm glad that we did because I think for many of us who have had our voices in the way in which we approach Christianity, the way in which we approach the Bible in the American

context and even abroad have had it silence for so long that it is good for us to wrestle with these

ideas, good for us to hear the affirmation of the Black biblical interpretation.

As you know here at the witness, we like to talk about being Black centered.

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