Three Black Men: Theology, Culture, And The World Around Us

In this episode, Trey, Sam, and Robert sit down to talk about the waves of violence that has dominated the news headlines and the roles that men have played in it. (This may not be a conversation suitable for a car ride with others.) To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, Sam and Trey sit down to talk about the impact a consumerist culture has on the art we make. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Robert sets the table for a recurring miniseries on the music that has shaped who (we) areTo support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, Sam, Trey, and Robert discuss rapper Juvenile's new album Boiling Point. They also point to how rap has played into their formation as Black men. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam, Trey, and Robert discuss the main character of Blood at the Root, a book by LaDarrion Williams. The character, Malik, serves as a reflection on Black teenage years and more. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, Sam, Trey, and Robert sit down to talk about the nature of misogynoir and their own journey with learning to detect it, and divest from it. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this week's episode, Sam and Trey talk about helping their kids navigate the complexities of human relationships and community.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Robert and Sam sit down to discuss the fictional character Simon Williams and the new show Wonder Man.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

Trey leads Sam and Robert in a discussion around the grief that often happens when we grow personally, professionally, etc.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Robert attempts to continue the conversation generated by racist slurs at the BAFTAs. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam, Trey, and Robert sit down to discuss what it means to be a Black man who dreams...now.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

Welcome back everyone to season 7 of the podcast. In this episode Sam, Trey, and Robert sketch out the season which will be around Black men Dream. Black Men Grieve. Black Men Grow.

In this season finale Robert and Trey interview Dr. Gary Green about his new book Playing the Game: Embodied Brilliance Beyond the Moral Limits of Race in Sport. Dr. Green is a professor in Pastoral Theology. You can find his work at his Substack: https://thegreenidea.substack.com/ or his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegreenidea - Robert did a previous video interview with Green and you can watch it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/musingsfromabrokenheart/p/embodied-brilliance-with-robert-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=webThat is a wrap on another season! Thank you for following us and supporting the work that we do week after week. Bless you all until next season.

In this episode, Sam, Trey, and Robert talk about the violence that spiritual bypassing does to individuals and communities. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam, Trey, and Robert sit down to discuss Sam's upcoming speaking engagement at the Winter Solace and the topic of Resurrection. For more information on the Winter Solace please go to: https://the-pilgrimage.org/home-2/get-connected/winter-solace-2025/To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

This episode is a short blessing and love letter to men who have done (and doing) the work to divest from toxic masculinity and patriarchy. Many of these men go unnoticed as they do their work to make the world a better place. Consider two books from bell hooks:1. All About Love 2. The Will to Change To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Trey and Robert sit down to talk about afrofuturism and the ways that this tool can help guide the systems and rituals that we build. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam, Trey, and Robert have an honest discussion on their experiences with church and their vision on being in liberated community. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Robert talks about the power of sacred encounters and his history with John 14.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam and Trey talk through the various seasons of fatherhood and where they are now. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam and Robert talk about the Marvel show Ironheart. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam, Trey, and Robert talk about learning to celebrate their current wins. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Trey goes on a journey to bring historical and current knowledge of Liberia into dialogue with what we face here in America.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, Sam, Trey, and Rob revisit their thoughts around shame and God's commitments toward us individually and collectively. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Trey and Sam discuss the prolific book The Message by Ta-Nehisi CoatesTo support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, the fellas sit down to talk about the beauty of Black joy. Don't we need it? Yeah. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this conversation, Robert, Sam, and Trey discuss their thoughts on Ryan Coogler's hit movie, Sinners.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Robert highlights a recent interview that he did around the movie The Wiz. He shares some of the background of why this movie is so important to him. For the full interview he references please check it out by going to the Voiceover: Movies That Move Us podcast.

We interrupt our scheduled break in programming to bring you this historical, political, and theological reflection on Juneteenth.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Robert highlights the work of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde as a profile in sincere Truth Telling. Please check out her book How We Learn To Be Brave.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode we talk about the work of being an iconoclast and the care that is needed to do it well. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

Sam and Robert sit down in this episode to talk about the evolution of (or lack of) rappers that they have been impacted by and learned from. Enjoy. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, we get the opportunity to sit with our first guest ever...Sharifa Stevens in a full circle moment as we discuss her new book When We Talk to God: Prayers and Poems for Black Women. Please go and get her book wherever books are sold and check out her substack at https://sharifahstevens.substack.comTo support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode Sam and Robert discuss their mental health and the state of the country. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this week's episode, Sam & Trey sit down to talk about the capacity for telling the truth in music... but the temptation and allure of peddling nonsense instead.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode we are happy to bring back on the podcast poet and author Nikki Grimes to talk about her new book Glory, Too: Poems. You can find out more about this book and about more of her work at nikkigrimes.com To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode we think through the normal critiques of building echo chambers and offer a generative approach to building them. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, we sit down to talk about the recent viral clip of Marvin Sapp and the pressure to give financially to church spaces. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In continuing the season's theme of truth telling...Trey reads Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Enjoy. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, we have an honest conversation about the roles that shame has played in our lives and how it can be a generative force.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode, we bring Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and work to the table and talk through what it means to be a truth teller who emulates his work. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

Continuing the conversations we have been having on being truth tellers, we sit down and talk about the journey towards telling the truth to ourselves. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this brief episode Robert thinks about the role of Black imagination and how it relates to truth telling. He reads a Foreword of Natasha Marin's book Black Imagination. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode we sit down with the always thoughtful and always funny Reverend Solomon Missouri. For more information on his work please visit www.solomonmissouri.com To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

Trey leads this episode and continues the theme of the season by leaning into the legacy of Ida B. Wells.To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

We are back at the table for season 6. In this opening episode we discuss the gravity of the moments that we are living in. We are energized to podcast this season and hope you will enjoy what we have cooking up. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

We end Season 5 and our journey towards hope together. We are proud of all of the conversations we have had and look forward to Season 6. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode we sit down with author Quina Aragon to talk about her new book Love Has a Story. Please go to https://quinaaragon.com/love-has-a-story/ for more info. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

In this episode we talk with author Cody Balfour about his new book Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Please go to https://www.codyqbalfour.com for more information on his work. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]

(Note this was supposed to upload Tuesday morning but failed to upload) In this episode Robert shares some reflections from Dr. Martin Luther King's book Strength to Love. Please allow Dr. King's words to anchor you on a tumultuous Election Day. To support the work that we do here and to join the conversation, please visit our Patreon: patreon.com/threeblackmen and if you'd like to support us financially outside of Patreon, you can do that via PayPal: [email protected]