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end. I believe we we live. Hi, I'll do it. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to this exciting

discussion. I know you're ready for this. Hold up. Let me do the right intro because I think

this is going to make all the difference in the world. Y'all ready? Greetings and God bless.

Welcome to another episode of past the Mike live dynamic voices for a diverse church powered by

the witness, a black Christian collective. I am your host Tyler Burns. You can follow me on Twitter

or Instagram at Burns clan. Follow at your own risk. And we are so excited to be here to talk to you

about a review and a response to the PBS documentary that came out earlier this week, The Black

Church. It was run and created by Dr Henry Lewis Gates. And I have an esteemed panel that is on

to talk about this before I introduce them. Let me just make a couple of disclaimers and also

make for you an invitation. The first disclaimer is this. We're running this through Zoom, so we're

going to be looking at comments. And I hope that you are ready and willing and excited to be able to

share some questions for our esteemed panel. So I hope that you're ready. Get your questions ready. We're

going to take those at the end of this conversation. Now number two, here at the witness, one of the

things we try to do is we try to speak to the expansive black Christian tradition. So this means the

historic black church as it was attempted to be represented in the black church documentary.

This also means those faith activists who find more identification with the streets than the sanctuary.

And also those black Christians who are in white evangelical spaces or majority white mainline

spaces as well. And this also includes those who are in a space where they are recognizing

that maybe their faith needs to evolve a little bit. And they're still trying to figure out what

that looks like in 2021. I hope that you see that there's space for you regardless of where you

fall into that. But we as diverse as this panel is, we are not all encompassing in our diversity.

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