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Pass The Mic — 469 episodes

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The Witness of Black Art

2

The Witness of Black Preaching

3

The Witness of Black History

4

Can I Get a Witness Podcast Interview with Christina Faith

5

On “Social Justice and the Gospel” Part 1

6

The Myth of Absent Black Fathers

7

Abortion and the Black Community

8

Pass The Mic's Top 10 Cultural Artifacts From 2025 (PART 2)

9

Pass The Mic's Top 10 Cultural Artifacts From 2025 (PART 1)

10

The Fierce Urgency of Black Christianity

11

Close The Doors!

12

The Post-Pandemic Faith Boom

13

The Roadmap To Ruin

14

A Targeted Approach To Protest

15

Passing the Torch: T.D. Jakes Hands Over Church Leadership

16

The End of an Era

17

We Need To Talk About Philip Anthony Mitchell

18

Sinners Spoiler Review Part 2: The Characters, The Themes, and The Church

19

Sinners Spoiler Review Part 1: Is Sinners Anti-Christian Propaganda?

20

A Break For Joy

21

Are We Peddlers of Cheap Unity?

22

From Young Restless & Reformed to Mike Todd: the Risks of Rapid Growth

23

Digital Discipleship & The Future of Church

24

Protect Our Black Institutions

25

DEI: Make America Racist Again

26

How To Live When Mammon is on the Throne with Dr. Malcolm Foley

27

The Anti-Greed Gospel with Dr. Malcom Foley

28

Walking Out of the National Prayer Breakfast

29

Lorenzo Sewell & Mariann Budde: A Tale of 2 Pastors

30

Our Thoughts on Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show

31

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark with Cody Balfour

32

Lost.

33

Processing Donald Trump with Jemar Tisby... Again.

34

Pass The Mic's Top 10 Cultural Artifacts From 2024 (PART 2)

35

Pass The Mic's Top 10 Cultural Artifacts From 2024 (PART 1)

36

Pass The Tea: Election Reactions with Truth's Table

37

From Veggie Tales to TikTok: The Evolution of Christian Media

38

Passing The Mic To Dwight A. Radcliff Jr.

39

Thankful For The Real Ones

40

So, You Think You've Been Called To Preach...

41

Christian Films Are NOT Dead. Should They Be?

42

Trust: A Casualty of Racism

43

Your Questions, Our Answers - Ask Us Anything

44

Race, Justice, and Resistance

45

The Whole Man with Rasool Berry

46

Mutusi

47

Gen Z Men Are More Religious Than Women... You Sure About That?

48

Diddy and The Conspiracy of Silence

49

A Summit to Defend Democracy, Mark Robinson, and a Footnotes Crossover

50

Confronting Misogynoir

51

Biracial Identity Formation with Ryan Gentry

52

That Time Tyler Cast Out A Demon

53

The Spirit of Justice

54

White Liberal Racism

55

Evangelicals For Harris

56

Roundtable: The Ferguson Uprisings of 2014

57

Mike Brown 10 Years Later

58

Should Christians Denounce Their Fraternities?

59

Trump kept his life. Did we lose our souls?

60

A Message From Pastor Tyler Burns

61

Loving Your Swing State Neighbor

62

Genocide in Gaza

63

Processing the Biden Trump Debate

64

Tony Evans, Celebrity Pastors, and the Death of the Mega Church

65

The History and Significance of Juneteenth

66

SBC, The Alt-Right, And Condemning White Supremacy

67

The Church is Wack!?

68

Brown Faces, White Spaces with Latasha Morrison

69

Pastor Keion Henderson and the "Shush" Heard Around the World

70

Black In The South

71

Perception vs Reality

72

Preaching and the Art of Telling a Good Story

73

Masters of the Air with Dee Rees

74

Do I Need A Mentor?

75

The Color of Compromise 5-Year Anniversary LIVE Event

76

Navigating the Tension: Upholding Values in the Fight for Racial Justice

77

Evangelism Implosion

78

What is Justice?

79

Unapologetically Black and Christian

80

Pass The Mic: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III (ARCHIVES)

81

Becoming Brave with Dr. Brenda Salter Mcneil (ARCHIVES)

82

Behind The Mic: MLK50

83

2023 Cultural Artifacts, Part 2

84

2023 Cultural Artifacts, Part 1

85

Processing the Death of Bishop Carlton Pearson

86

Not The Voice, The Microphone Part 5: Joy and Justice, #LeaveLoud, and What Comes Next

87

Not The Voice, The Microphone Part 4: The Live Tour, The Witness, and What If

88

Not The Voice, The Microphone Part 3: Truth's Table, Gender Apartheid, and Andy Crouch

89

Not The Voice, The Microphone Part 2: James White, Donald Trump, and Black Lives Matter

90

Not The Voice, The Microphone Part 1: RAAN, Voddie Baucham, and Mike Brown

91

Travis Kelce & The Cookout Whites

92

AMA: What Can Be Done About The Racial Divide Within The Church?

93

AMA: After #LeaveLoud, Where Do We Go From ‘The Wilderness’?

94

AMA: Serving Outside of the Church But Not Ordained

95

AMA: What Is Our Devotional Life Like?

96

When The Organization You Love Betrays You

97

Signs of an Unhealthy Church

98

Michael Emerson, Divided By Faith, and Pass The Mic

99

The Most Influential Black Preachers

100

Who is “They”??

101

"RICO Suave" (aka The Latest Trump Indictment)

102

Michael Oher Corrects the Blindside

103

Bonus: Reflections on the Jacksonville Shooting

104

Silenced, Censored, Sanitized, and Softened

105

Pass The Chair: The Montgomery Brawl

106

Giving Us Life

107

Backstage at Joy and Justice 2023: Dr Kenyeatta Gilbert, Dr Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, Rev Alvin Love, and Danielle Coke Balfour

108

Backstage at Joy and Justice 2023: Faitth Brooks, Robert Monson, and Ekemini Uwan

109

Fighting Racism In Publishing

110

Black Christians, Your Blackness is NOT a Joke

111

The Miseducation of the Young Black Christian

112

The Thiqueness Vol 2: Captain Marvel

113

The Thiqueness Vol 1: Respectability

114

Leave Loud: 2 Years Later Part 2

115

Leave Loud: 2 Years Later Part 1

116

I Won't Shut Up

117

Mass Shootings

118

Martin, Malcolm, and Myths

119

The People V Jemar Tisby

120

Pass The Mic: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III

121

Personal Mount Rushmore Part 2

122

Personal Mount Rushmore Part 1

123

Announcing Joy and Justice 2023: Rise Up & Flourish

124

Pass The Mic: Anjelika Washington (Praise This)

125

The Soft Life of a Black Man

126

Dealing With Trolls

127

Florida Man Bans African American Studies

128

Passing the Baton: Succession, Nepotism, and Bishop TD Jakes

129

Meghan and Harry

130

Pass The Mic: Wood Harris (Creed III, Remember The Titans, The Wire)

131

They Got Our Faces Now?

132

“You’ve Changed”: How to navigate pushback from others when you grow

133

Deion Sanders and Ed Reed: Are they messiahs or misguided?

134

Tyre Nichols: A Brutal Murder in Memphis

135

Has the Black Church done the most to help Black People in the US?

136

2022 Cultural Artifacts, Part 2

137

2022 Cultural Artifacts, Part 1

138

Remember Me Now with Faitth Brooks

139

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Spoilers!)

140

Special Feature: Once Upon A Time In Wakanda

141

My Seven Black Fathers with William Jawando

142

How to Use Social Media for Your Ministry

143

LIVE FROM ATL 2022: AMA

144

LIVE FROM ATL 2022: You Got Some 'Splainin To Do

145

Frenemies

146

Young Christian Professionals with Stanley Frankart

147

The Promises and Perils of Christian Education

148

Writing What I Live with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

149

Gen Z and the Modernization of the Church

150

Afro·Theo·Futurism

151

Are They Ever Going To Arrest Him?

152

Pay Us Our Money!

153

A King in the House: Dr. Dharius Daniels on Pass The Mic

154

BIG ANNOUNCMENT: Join us in Atlanta Aug 19th for a LIVE Pass The Mic!

155

AMA with Tyler Burns and Jemar Tisby

156

GEN Z with Ryan G

157

Racial Identity Development

158

July 4th 2022: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

159

CRT Everywhere All At Once

160

Heal, Black Man Part 4

161

Heal, Black Man Part 3: Heal Together

162

Heal, Black Man Part 2: Self-care

163

Heal, Black Man Part 1

164

Leave Loud: Malcolm Foley

165

Searching for a Healthy Church

166

An Open Letter to the Board of Trustees at Grove City College

167

Don’t Restrain Your Blackness

168

Processing Grove City College with Jemar Tisby Part 2

169

Processing Grove City College with Jemar Tisby Part 1

170

Our Stories Matter

171

Can Satan Cast Out Satan?

172

Black Christians We Have Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Part 2

173

Black Christians We Have Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Part 1

174

High On The Hog

175

Black Christians We Must Sing

176

The Expansive Black Christian Tradition

177

Life, Love, and Liberation with Truth's Table

178

Trayvon Martin and Race in the Church

179

Can Black Men be Real Friends?

180

The Fierce Urgency of Voting Rights

181

Shoutin' in the Fire with Danté Stewart

182

When God Seems Distant

183

To the Pastors of the TikTok Generation with Brea Perry

184

Until I Am Free: An Interview with Dr. Keisha Blain

185

Welcome Melanated Faith to The Witness!

186

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2021 Part 2

187

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2021 Part 1

188

I see you, Kangs!

189

Unwritten Church Rules

190

Giving Tuesday

191

Black Competition

192

Black Friday

193

We Can’t Have Nothin

194

10 Years of Growth

195

10 Years Anniversary

196

Colin in Black & White: Jaden Michael on Pass The Mic

197

Good Church Kids

198

Can Black Men Grow Old?

199

Vax, Plats, and Facts

200

What Do We Do With Our Black Parents?

201

Leave Loud: Be Free, Not Guilty

202

Healing Racial Trauma with Sheila Wise Rowe

203

Jemar’s PHD Journey

204

The Active Witness Challenge

205

Black Christians, Please Don’t Waste Your Time

206

The Tweets I Don’t Tweet From @JemarTisby

207

“When We Stand” with Terence Lester

208

“He Saw That It Was Good” with Sho Baraka

209

July 4th 2021: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

210

Juneteenth: Reflections on a National Holiday from Jemar Tisby

211

A Complicated Juneteenth

212

#LeaveLOUD: In the Wilderness

213

White Evangelical Racism with Dr. Anthea Butler

214

Behind the Mic: The Cost of Reconstruction

215

Creative Anti-Racism with Danielle Coke

216

What is #LeaveLOUD?

217

Behind the Mic: Derek Chauvin Verdict

218

Leave LOUD: Behind the Mic with Tyler Burns & Ally Henny

219

Black Liturgies with Cole Riley

220

Leave LOUD: Tyler Burns, Part 2

221

Leave LOUD: Ally Henny's Story Part 2

222

The Work Continues

223

Leave LOUD: Ally Henny's Story Part 1

224

Leave LOUD: Tyler Burns’ Story

225

Leave LOUD: Jemar Tisby’s Story

226

Appreciating the Pentecostal Tradition

227

The Black Church PBS Documentary Review Live!

228

Leave Loud: It’s time to go, family

229

Permission to Be Black with A.D. Thomason

230

“Letter From Birmingham Jail”

231

We Been Told Yall….Black Triumph in an Insurrection

232

MINI: How do we do reconciliation right?

233

MINI: What is the ARC of racial justice?

234

MINI: What are some things white people can do to fight racism that doesn't put the work on their black neighbors?

235

MINI: When is it time for black people to move out of white spaces?

236

MINI: What does success look like when pursuing racial justice?

237

MINI: "I'm Not A Racist" "I Don't See Color" "Racism Isn't A Modern Issue"

238

MINI: How can pastors start productive conversations with their congregation about racism?

239

MINI: Don't want to create 'unnecessary division' by talking about race?

240

MINI: What are some practical things one can do to pursue racial justice?

241

MINI: What do you sat to people who don't think racism is an issue?

242

How to Fight Racism MINIS

243

2020 Cultural Artifacts, Part 2

244

2020 Cultural Artifacts, Part 1

245

The Witness Foundation with Dr. Shannon Polk

246

How to Fight Racism with Jemar Tisby

247

Reading While Black with Dr. Esau McCaulley

248

Voices of Fire with Ally Henny and Patrick Riddick

249

Becoming Brave with Dr. Brenda Salter Mcneil

250

Post-Election Episode

251

Will You Tell The Story?

252

Will You Be A Witness?

253

Restoration with Lecrae

254

“After Whiteness” with Dr. Willie Jennings

255

Are We Really Making Progress?

256

Long Live The King

257

#LeaveLoud | Leaving the SBC with Pastor John Onwuchekwa

258

Kamala Harris and the Power of Symbolism

259

Joy and Justice: Rev. Dr. Nicole Martin

260

"Hold On" A Message of Lament, Hope, and Action for Black Life

261

Black Christians, Don’t Negotiate with Your Dignity

262

#LeaveLoud with Ally Henny and Zee Johnson

263

New Flag, Who Dis?

264

“Not My Jesus” with Pastor John Faison

265

Black Christians: We Are Not Shields (or Stools)

266

Righteous Black Anger with Dante Stewart

267

George Floyd and An Unjust Nation “On The Brink”

268

A Racial Reformation in the 21st Century

269

Covid Check-in

270

A Time of Lament for Ahmaud Arbery

271

Tyler at Lee University

272

Update: The Witness Foundation

273

Asian American Christian Statement on Anti-Asian Racism with Ray Chang

274

Church In The Age of COVID-19

275

Dealing With Resentment Towards The Oppressor

276

Pass The Mic AMA From Houston LIVE

277

Threats To The Movement

278

The Witness of Legacy

279

The 2020 Black Vote

280

The Witness of Black Love

281

The Witness of Art

282

The Witness of Justice

283

The Witness of Preaching

284

The Witness of History

285

2019 Cultural Artifacts Part 2

286

2019 Cultural Artifacts Part 1

287

Reconciliation and Justice, Are They Friends or Enemies?

288

Announcing The Witness Foundation

289

Waves Movie Review with Tyler Burns

290

The Harriet Movie and the "Woke Wars"

291

“Jesus is King” Group Chat with Ally Henny & Aadam Keeley

292

Live Free or Die: An Interview with Leslie Odom, Jr.

293

“Politically Homeless”? Black Christian Politics

294

Stop Killing Us: Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, and generational trauma

295

Pass The Mic LIVE: Don't Slide In The Middle of Brandt Jean's Hug

296

Joy And Justice: Digital Access

297

The Witness LIVE: Justice

298

The Witness LIVE: Joy

299

A Time to Heal

300

White Jesus w/ Seun "S.O." Otukpe

301

Is Racism Worse in the South

302

Black Church Hurt

303

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

304

Why don’t you attend a Black Church?

305

How to Raise Justice-Minded Black Children Part 2

306

When the President Crashes your Church Service

307

How to Raise Justice-Minded Black Children Part 1

308

Let's Talk About Trolls

309

Issa Health Challenge

310

Interview: Van Jones

311

The Myth of Absent Black Fathers

312

“The Blood of Jesus is the Bridge, not my Back” with Ekemini Uwan

313

Abortion and the Black Community

314

Pass The Remote: Into the Spider-Verse

315

Is Black History Month Colonized?

316

Footnotes: Green Book, Cohen, and Black History Month

317

The Story of Ann Atwater with Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove

318

What is Anti-Racism?

319

Why Do Multi-Ethnic Churches Fail?

320

Live From Chicago: The Color of Compromise Book Launch

321

#SurvivingRKelly

322

The Color of Compromise: Chapter 1

323

Pass The Mic: 2018 Cultural Artifacts

324

Footnotes: Andrew Johnson, Was Jesus a Refugee, and the True Meaning of Kwanzaa

325

Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

326

Politics and the Origins of Ideology

327

Politics and Racial Bias

328

Michael B. Jordan interview + Creed 2 Review

329

Lessons from the “Mother City” of Cape Town

330

Pass The Mic AMA From DC

331

The Witness 2019: Expanding the Collective

332

The Witness : One Year Later

333

Should We Talk about Politics in the Church?

334

Ole Miss, Ed Meek, and Ida B. Wells

335

De-Centering Whiteness in our Conversations

336

From Aretha to Botham: Death in the Black Community

337

On “Social Justice and the Gospel” Part 2

338

On “Social Justice and the Gospel” Part 1

339

Pass The Mic AMA From ATL

340

Bonus: ATL Chat With Amena Brown

341

When Pastors Meet with a President

342

Clapbacks Are A Ministry

343

Drift or Shift?

344

The Black Barbershop

345

Trust Black People When They Say Racism is Real

346

Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?

347

Restaurants, Protests, and "Civility"

348

Pence, Patterson and the SBC

349

Pass The Mic AMA From NYC

350

Should We Cancel Kanye?

351

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2018

352

“I’m Still Here”, an Interview with Austin Channing Brown

353

This is America: A Video Review

354

Reflecting on Dr. James Cone

355

Interview: Dr. Frank A. Thomas

356

Pass The Mic AMA From Dallas

357

Episode 200: Live From Dallas

358

MLK50: Bree Newsome (Interview)

359

MLK50: Wendi Thomas (Interview)

360

MLK50: Dr Bernice King

361

Easter Special: Our Resurrected King

362

Interview with Elizabeth Bruenig

363

Confronting Pharaoh: Why We Won’t Go Quietly

364

Welcome To "Once Upon A Time In Wakanda"

365

"A Quiet Exodus": A New Path for Black Christians

366

The Pitfalls of Black Excellence

367

Black Panther Part 2 (Live From Pensacola)

368

Shut Up and Dribble? Nah

369

Black Panther Part 1 (Live From Pensacola)

370

A Conversation on Black Preaching with Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert

371

Can we clapback just one time?

372

Interview: KevOnStage

373

The Real MLK

374

What We Not Finna Do Is…

375

Interview: Warner Miller

376

Episode 91: Interview: Bryan Stevenson

377

Am I an Evangelical?: Perspectives From Women And Black Christians

378

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2017

379

Opening of the Mississippi Civil Right's Museum

380

Get Active, Get Local

381

Confronting Misogynoir

382

We Tried To Tell Y’all

383

Is Reformed Theology Flawed?

384

Can I Get A Witness?

385

Pass The Tea: Live At LDR17

386

Interview: Rob Lee

387

Live From Memphis

388

Ta-nehisi Coates and Black Atheism

389

Black In The South

390

Kill The Culture Wars

391

LDR 2017: Pastor Duke Kwon “Speaking the Truth in Love”

392

Allow Us To Re(Re)introduce Ourselves

393

Bonus: Faith, Justice, And The Civil Rights Movement Through The Lens Of Fannie Lou Hamer

394

The Notorious S.O.P.

395

SBC, Alt-Right, And Condemning White Supremacy

396

Am I Safe?

397

Bonus: Charlottesville

398

The Great Woke Debate

399

Bonus: The Fierce Urgency of Now

400

Pass The Mic AMA

401

The N-Word’s Radioactiveness

402

Racism And Christian Education

403

Confederate Monuments And Commencement Speakers

404

Bonus: A Brief Biblical Theology Of Race

405

After TGC 2017

406

Responding To Controversy

407

Pass The Remote: Get Out

408

Pass The Tea: Gender Apartheid

409

Interview: Jarvis Williams

410

Is The Black Church Dead

411

Black History Month Recap

412

Reflections On President Obama’s Legacy

413

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy With Dr. Mika Edmondson

414

The Fallacy Of Proximity: Vicki Yohe And Paula White

415

Black History Month

416

Pass The Mic AMA

417

Interview: Andy Crouch

418

Who We Are, What We Do

419

Safe Havens In Tumultuous Times

420

Interview: Michael Wear

421

Processing Donald Trump With Jemar Tisby

422

Kaepernick, Patriotism, And Peaceful Protest

423

Perspective

424

Hamilton

425

Pass The Remote: Luke Cage

426

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts Of 2016

427

Interview: Doug Logan

428

Sho Baraka’s The Narrative And 13th

429

Keith Lamont Scott, Terence Crutcher, And NMAAHC

430

Education And The Expectations Project

431

The Election Of 2016

432

LDR 2016: RAAN Staff Roundtable

433

Interview: Soong-Chan Rah

434

LDR 2016: Checking In With Pass The Mic

435

LDR 2016: Respectability Politics Reimagined with Ekemini Uwan

436

LDR 2016: Rev. Russ Whitfield “Change Your Clothes” Serman

437

Mary Jane, Zendaya, And Representation

438

A Pastoral Perspective On The 2016 Election

439

TGC And The Anniversary Of Mike Brown’s Death

440

Real Hurt, Real Hope: Racial Tension And Perseverance

441

Interview: Eugene Scott

442

Olympics, Flooding, And Prison

443

Black Lives Matter And The Christian Response

444

Jesse Williams And General Assembly

445

Four Weeks Of Pain: Terrorism, Ramadan, And The Christian Response

446

Orlando and Stanford

447

Interview: Collin Hansen

448

Tamir Rice Settlement

449

Reformed Theology Is Indigenous To African Americans

450

Ta-Nehisi Coates

451

Hats And Harambe

452

Conversing Diversely

453

Interview: Sho Baraka

454

Black Panther And The Longing For A Hero King

455

Russell Moore V Donald Trump

456

Flint, Larry Wilmore, and Trump

457

The A.R.C. Of Racial Reconciliation

458

How To Be A White Ally

459

Processing James White with Jemar Tisby

460

Defining Systemic Racism

461

Defining White Privilege

462

Defining Implicit Bias

463

Artistic Activism

464

Response To The Dividing Line

465

Interview: Vincent Bacote

466

Interview: Alexander Jun

467

Progressed Evangelicalism

468

Interview: Kevin Smith

469

Flint Water Crisis and #OSCARSSOWHITE