The Witness Foundation with Dr. Shannon Polk

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Surprise! We have a special episode for you today! Our guest is the Executive Director of The Witness Foundation: The Rev. Dr. Shannon Polk! Shannon is a theologian, speaker, philanthropist, and a lawyer. She speaks about the intersection of race and gender and is a leading voice in the space of Black Philanthropy. Today, she joins our host Tyler Burns to talk about The Witness Foundation and Black Philanthropy. For those who are unaware, The Witness Foundation seeks to correct patterns of racial injustice that have deprived Black Christians and communities of material resources by identifying promising Black Christian leaders to be part of a two-year fellowship. They receive $50,000 per year of the fellowship as it makes their work for racial justice more effective. Of course, we encourage you to give to the “Will You Be a Witness?” Campaign at thewitnessinc.com and apply to the Witness Foundation Fellowship at thewitnessfoundation.co! 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 2023 Holiday Gift Guide for Book Lovers from CT Creative Studio.
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0:15.8	reader. Visit Christmas Gift buying guide.com to browse our books. This is Pass the Mic. Greetings and God bless.
0:35.0	Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mic.
0:38.0	Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church powered by the Witness,
0:41.0	A Black Christian collective.
0:43.3	I'm your host Tyler Burns.
0:45.2	You can follow me on Twitter at Burns Clan
0:48.2	follow at your own risk and joining me today.
0:51.4	I have a very, very special guest.
0:54.0	And I'm not going to say this is your typical guest.
0:58.0	I think this is family here.
1:01.0	And it's kind of surreal that she's on the podcast because we've
1:03.5	talked about her before she's written in about some of her personal
1:07.4	experiences and now we have the privilege of working alongside of her of course I'm
1:11.6	talking about the Reverend Dr. Shannon Polk.
1:15.2	Shannon, how are you doing? I'm doing good, doing good. How are you? What's happening?
1:21.3	I'm doing well. You know, I should mention Shannon is of course the executive director of the witness
1:26.4	Foundation and we're getting ready to get into some of your background and your story but how exciting is it that
1:32.1	we're able to work together this is really exciting.
1:34.4	Oh this is fun. This is fun stuff right here.
1:37.4	It's good to work with good people and as I told them I'm so excited to be
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