Will You Be A Witness?

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The Witness is expanding! We LOVE to see it! Introducing: The Witness Incorporated (The Witness, Inc) The Witness: A Black Christian Collective is expanding to form The Witness Incorporated as a launching pad for multiple new endeavors. The newly minted philanthropic division is The Witness Foundation, which fills the gap of equipping Black Christian leaders to make a greater social impact. Each will have direction under Mr. Blue Check Verified himself, Jemar Tisby, who founded and led the collective for nearly a decade! Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise will serve as CEO of The Witness Inc., the parent company that will house both the foundation and the Black Christian Collective. The Witness Black Christian Collective is excited to announce that Tyler Burns will assume the role of President of the Collective. Burns, a Florida-based pastor and co-host of the Pass the Mic podcast, has served as Vice President of the Collective since its launch in 2017. His appointment as president of the Collective is the beginning of a new era in the history of The Witness. As President of The Witness BCC, Tyler hopes to continue the organization’s long tradition of amplifying the diverse voices of Black Christians. He hopes that The Witness BCC will continue to engage its core audience by encouraging, educating, and empowering Black Christians to be stewards of the Black prophetic tradition. ----- Read about this news on our website: https://thewitnessbcc.com/the-witness-bcc-expands-to-form-the-witness-inc/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	How long you got, that's got time, I got time on time.
0:37.0	Let's talk about it.
0:38.0	It is exhausting.
0:39.0	You know, hashtag, I'm tired.
0:41.0	But it feels like, it's like when you're in the car, right?
0:43.9	And the needle's already on E, and you're just
0:47.8	driving, wondering how far you can go on an empty tank. And that's what it feels like in 2020 that we're
0:54.6	pouring out and pouring out and pouring out never catch a break never have a moment to
0:59.7	fill back up and so it's exhausting.
1:02.8	Yeah and I also think it's interesting because there is this sense in which now we finally
1:07.0	feel permission and I guess internal permission because we're not taking it from the outside
1:12.0	majority context,
1:13.0	but we feel internal permission to be ourselves,
1:15.6	but we don't know what that looks like,
1:16.8	because we're trying to navigate what does it mean to be fully ourselves
1:21.4	and to fully flourish in a context that denies it.
1:25.0	And I think that especially ties in with the Christian element because there are so many people,
1:29.0	I have to tell you, I talk to people every single week from across the country who are saying how do I navigate this in my
1:35.4	setting which doesn't necessarily affirm the dignity that I've been created
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