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Pass The Mic — 474 episodes

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1

Why Do Multi-Ethnic Churches Fail?

2

Reconciliation and Justice, Are They Friends or Enemies?

3

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

4

Time Capsule: Threats To The Movement (2020)

5

The Witness of Black Legacy

6

The Witness of Black Art

7

The Witness of Black Preaching

8

The Witness of Black History

9

Can I Get a Witness Podcast Interview with Christina Faith

10

On “Social Justice and the Gospel” Part 1

11

The Myth of Absent Black Fathers

12

Abortion and the Black Community

13

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

14

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

15

The Fierce Urgency of Black Christianity

16

Close The Doors!

17

The Post-Pandemic Faith Boom

18

The Roadmap To Ruin

19

A Targeted Approach To Protest

20

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

21

The End of an Era

22

We Need To Talk About Philip Anthony Mitchell

23

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

24

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

25

A Break For Joy

26

Are We Peddlers of Cheap Unity?

27

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

28

Digital Discipleship & The Future of Church

29

Protect Our Black Institutions

30

DEI: Make America Racist Again

31

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

32

The Anti-Greed Gospel with Dr. Malcom Foley

33

Walking Out of the National Prayer Breakfast

34

Lorenzo Sewell & Mariann Budde: A Tale of 2 Pastors

35

Our Thoughts on Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show

36

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark with Cody Balfour

37

Lost.

38

Processing Donald Trump with Jemar Tisby... Again.

39

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

40

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

41

Pass The Tea: Election Reactions with Truth's Table

42

From Veggie Tales to TikTok: The Evolution of Christian Media

43

Passing The Mic To Dwight A. Radcliff Jr.

44

Thankful For The Real Ones

45

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

46

Christian Films Are NOT Dead. Should They Be?

47

Trust: A Casualty of Racism

48

Your Questions, Our Answers - Ask Us Anything

49

Race, Justice, and Resistance

50

The Whole Man with Rasool Berry

51

Mutusi

52

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

53

Diddy and The Conspiracy of Silence

54

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

55

Confronting Misogynoir

56

Biracial Identity Formation with Ryan Gentry

57

That Time Tyler Cast Out A Demon

58

The Spirit of Justice

59

White Liberal Racism

60

Evangelicals For Harris

61

Roundtable: The Ferguson Uprisings of 2014

62

Mike Brown 10 Years Later

63

Should Christians Denounce Their Fraternities?

64

Trump kept his life. Did we lose our souls?

65

A Message From Pastor Tyler Burns

66

Loving Your Swing State Neighbor

67

Genocide in Gaza

68

Processing the Biden Trump Debate

69

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

70

The History and Significance of Juneteenth

71

SBC, The Alt-Right, And Condemning White Supremacy

72

The Church is Wack!?

73

Brown Faces, White Spaces with Latasha Morrison

74

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

75

Black In The South

76

Perception vs Reality

77

Preaching and the Art of Telling a Good Story

78

Masters of the Air with Dee Rees

79

Do I Need A Mentor?

80

The Color of Compromise 5-Year Anniversary LIVE Event

81

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

82

Evangelism Implosion

83

What is Justice?

84

Unapologetically Black and Christian

85

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

86

Becoming Brave with Dr. Brenda Salter Mcneil (ARCHIVES)

87

Behind The Mic: MLK50

88

2023 Cultural Artifacts, Part 2

89

2023 Cultural Artifacts, Part 1

90

Processing the Death of Bishop Carlton Pearson

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

Travis Kelce & The Cookout Whites

97

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

98

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

99

AMA: Serving Outside of the Church But Not Ordained

100

AMA: What Is Our Devotional Life Like?

101

When The Organization You Love Betrays You

102

Signs of an Unhealthy Church

103

Michael Emerson, Divided By Faith, and Pass The Mic

104

The Most Influential Black Preachers

105

Who is “They”??

106

"RICO Suave" (aka The Latest Trump Indictment)

107

Michael Oher Corrects the Blindside

108

Bonus: Reflections on the Jacksonville Shooting

109

Silenced, Censored, Sanitized, and Softened

110

Pass The Chair: The Montgomery Brawl

111

Giving Us Life

112

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

113

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

114

Fighting Racism In Publishing

115

Black Christians, Your Blackness is NOT a Joke

116

The Miseducation of the Young Black Christian

117

The Thiqueness Vol 2: Captain Marvel

118

The Thiqueness Vol 1: Respectability

119

Leave Loud: 2 Years Later Part 2

120

Leave Loud: 2 Years Later Part 1

121

I Won't Shut Up

122

Mass Shootings

123

Martin, Malcolm, and Myths

124

The People V Jemar Tisby

125

Pass The Mic: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III

126

Personal Mount Rushmore Part 2

127

Personal Mount Rushmore Part 1

128

Announcing Joy and Justice 2023: Rise Up & Flourish

129

Pass The Mic: Anjelika Washington (Praise This)

130

The Soft Life of a Black Man

131

Dealing With Trolls

132

Florida Man Bans African American Studies

133

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

134

Meghan and Harry

135

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

136

They Got Our Faces Now?

137

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

138

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

139

Tyre Nichols: A Brutal Murder in Memphis

140

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

141

2022 Cultural Artifacts, Part 2

142

2022 Cultural Artifacts, Part 1

143

Remember Me Now with Faitth Brooks

144

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Spoilers!)

145

Special Feature: Once Upon A Time In Wakanda

146

My Seven Black Fathers with William Jawando

147

How to Use Social Media for Your Ministry

148

LIVE FROM ATL 2022: AMA

149

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

150

Frenemies

151

Young Christian Professionals with Stanley Frankart

152

The Promises and Perils of Christian Education

153

Writing What I Live with Natasha Sistrunk Robinson

154

Gen Z and the Modernization of the Church

155

Afro·Theo·Futurism

156

Are They Ever Going To Arrest Him?

157

Pay Us Our Money!

158

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

159

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

160

AMA with Tyler Burns and Jemar Tisby

161

GEN Z with Ryan G

162

Racial Identity Development

163

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

164

CRT Everywhere All At Once

165

Heal, Black Man Part 4

166

Heal, Black Man Part 3: Heal Together

167

Heal, Black Man Part 2: Self-care

168

Heal, Black Man Part 1

169

Leave Loud: Malcolm Foley

170

Searching for a Healthy Church

171

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

172

Don’t Restrain Your Blackness

173

Processing Grove City College with Jemar Tisby Part 2

174

Processing Grove City College with Jemar Tisby Part 1

175

Our Stories Matter

176

Can Satan Cast Out Satan?

177

Black Christians We Have Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Part 2

178

Black Christians We Have Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Part 1

179

High On The Hog

180

Black Christians We Must Sing

181

The Expansive Black Christian Tradition

182

Life, Love, and Liberation with Truth's Table

183

Trayvon Martin and Race in the Church

184

Can Black Men be Real Friends?

185

The Fierce Urgency of Voting Rights

186

Shoutin' in the Fire with Danté Stewart

187

When God Seems Distant

188

To the Pastors of the TikTok Generation with Brea Perry

189

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

190

Welcome Melanated Faith to The Witness!

191

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2021 Part 2

192

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2021 Part 1

193

I see you, Kangs!

194

Unwritten Church Rules

195

Giving Tuesday

196

Black Competition

197

Black Friday

198

We Can’t Have Nothin

199

10 Years of Growth

200

10 Years Anniversary

201

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

202

Good Church Kids

203

Can Black Men Grow Old?

204

Vax, Plats, and Facts

205

What Do We Do With Our Black Parents?

206

Leave Loud: Be Free, Not Guilty

207

Healing Racial Trauma with Sheila Wise Rowe

208

Jemar’s PHD Journey

209

The Active Witness Challenge

210

Black Christians, Please Don’t Waste Your Time

211

The Tweets I Don’t Tweet From @JemarTisby

212

“When We Stand” with Terence Lester

213

“He Saw That It Was Good” with Sho Baraka

214

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

215

Juneteenth: Reflections on a National Holiday from Jemar Tisby

216

A Complicated Juneteenth

217

#LeaveLOUD: In the Wilderness

218

White Evangelical Racism with Dr. Anthea Butler

219

Behind the Mic: The Cost of Reconstruction

220

Creative Anti-Racism with Danielle Coke

221

What is #LeaveLOUD?

222

Behind the Mic: Derek Chauvin Verdict

223

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

224

Black Liturgies with Cole Riley

225

Leave LOUD: Tyler Burns, Part 2

226

Leave LOUD: Ally Henny's Story Part 2

227

The Work Continues

228

Leave LOUD: Ally Henny's Story Part 1

229

Leave LOUD: Tyler Burns’ Story

230

Leave LOUD: Jemar Tisby’s Story

231

Appreciating the Pentecostal Tradition

232

The Black Church PBS Documentary Review Live!

233

Leave Loud: It’s time to go, family

234

Permission to Be Black with A.D. Thomason

235

“Letter From Birmingham Jail”

236

We Been Told Yall….Black Triumph in an Insurrection

237

MINI: How do we do reconciliation right?

238

MINI: What is the ARC of racial justice?

239

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

240

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

241

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

242

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

243

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

244

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

245

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

246

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

247

How to Fight Racism MINIS

248

2020 Cultural Artifacts, Part 2

249

2020 Cultural Artifacts, Part 1

250

The Witness Foundation with Dr. Shannon Polk

251

How to Fight Racism with Jemar Tisby

252

Reading While Black with Dr. Esau McCaulley

253

Voices of Fire with Ally Henny and Patrick Riddick

254

Becoming Brave with Dr. Brenda Salter Mcneil

255

Post-Election Episode

256

Will You Tell The Story?

257

Will You Be A Witness?

258

Restoration with Lecrae

259

“After Whiteness” with Dr. Willie Jennings

260

Are We Really Making Progress?

261

Long Live The King

262

#LeaveLoud | Leaving the SBC with Pastor John Onwuchekwa

263

Kamala Harris and the Power of Symbolism

264

Joy and Justice: Rev. Dr. Nicole Martin

265

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

266

Black Christians, Don’t Negotiate with Your Dignity

267

#LeaveLoud with Ally Henny and Zee Johnson

268

New Flag, Who Dis?

269

“Not My Jesus” with Pastor John Faison

270

Black Christians: We Are Not Shields (or Stools)

271

Righteous Black Anger with Dante Stewart

272

George Floyd and An Unjust Nation “On The Brink”

273

A Racial Reformation in the 21st Century

274

Covid Check-in

275

A Time of Lament for Ahmaud Arbery

276

Tyler at Lee University

277

Update: The Witness Foundation

278

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

279

Church In The Age of COVID-19

280

Dealing With Resentment Towards The Oppressor

281

Pass The Mic AMA From Houston LIVE

282

Threats To The Movement

283

The Witness of Legacy

284

The 2020 Black Vote

285

The Witness of Black Love

286

The Witness of Art

287

The Witness of Justice

288

The Witness of Preaching

289

The Witness of History

290

2019 Cultural Artifacts Part 2

291

2019 Cultural Artifacts Part 1

292

Reconciliation and Justice, Are They Friends or Enemies?

293

Announcing The Witness Foundation

294

Waves Movie Review with Tyler Burns

295

The Harriet Movie and the "Woke Wars"

296

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

297

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

298

“Politically Homeless”? Black Christian Politics

299

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

300

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

301

Joy And Justice: Digital Access

302

The Witness LIVE: Justice

303

The Witness LIVE: Joy

304

A Time to Heal

305

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

306

Is Racism Worse in the South

307

Black Church Hurt

308

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"

309

Why don’t you attend a Black Church?

310

How to Raise Justice-Minded Black Children Part 2

311

When the President Crashes your Church Service

312

How to Raise Justice-Minded Black Children Part 1

313

Let's Talk About Trolls

314

Issa Health Challenge

315

Interview: Van Jones

316

The Myth of Absent Black Fathers

317

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

318

Abortion and the Black Community

319

Pass The Remote: Into the Spider-Verse

320

Is Black History Month Colonized?

321

Footnotes: Green Book, Cohen, and Black History Month

322

The Story of Ann Atwater with Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove

323

What is Anti-Racism?

324

Why Do Multi-Ethnic Churches Fail?

325

Live From Chicago: The Color of Compromise Book Launch

326

#SurvivingRKelly

327

The Color of Compromise: Chapter 1

328

Pass The Mic: 2018 Cultural Artifacts

329

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

330

Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

331

Politics and the Origins of Ideology

332

Politics and Racial Bias

333

Michael B. Jordan interview + Creed 2 Review

334

Lessons from the “Mother City” of Cape Town

335

Pass The Mic AMA From DC

336

The Witness 2019: Expanding the Collective

337

The Witness : One Year Later

338

Should We Talk about Politics in the Church?

339

Ole Miss, Ed Meek, and Ida B. Wells

340

De-Centering Whiteness in our Conversations

341

From Aretha to Botham: Death in the Black Community

342

On “Social Justice and the Gospel” Part 2

343

On “Social Justice and the Gospel” Part 1

344

Pass The Mic AMA From ATL

345

Bonus: ATL Chat With Amena Brown

346

When Pastors Meet with a President

347

Clapbacks Are A Ministry

348

Drift or Shift?

349

The Black Barbershop

350

Trust Black People When They Say Racism is Real

351

Is Christianity the White Man's Religion?

352

Restaurants, Protests, and "Civility"

353

Pence, Patterson and the SBC

354

Pass The Mic AMA From NYC

355

Should We Cancel Kanye?

356

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2018

357

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

358

This is America: A Video Review

359

Reflecting on Dr. James Cone

360

Interview: Dr. Frank A. Thomas

361

Pass The Mic AMA From Dallas

362

Episode 200: Live From Dallas

363

MLK50: Bree Newsome (Interview)

364

MLK50: Wendi Thomas (Interview)

365

MLK50: Dr Bernice King

366

Easter Special: Our Resurrected King

367

Interview with Elizabeth Bruenig

368

Confronting Pharaoh: Why We Won’t Go Quietly

369

Welcome To "Once Upon A Time In Wakanda"

370

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

371

The Pitfalls of Black Excellence

372

Black Panther Part 2 (Live From Pensacola)

373

Shut Up and Dribble? Nah

374

Black Panther Part 1 (Live From Pensacola)

375

A Conversation on Black Preaching with Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert

376

Can we clapback just one time?

377

Interview: KevOnStage

378

The Real MLK

379

What We Not Finna Do Is…

380

Interview: Warner Miller

381

Episode 91: Interview: Bryan Stevenson

382

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

383

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts of 2017

384

Opening of the Mississippi Civil Right's Museum

385

Get Active, Get Local

386

Confronting Misogynoir

387

We Tried To Tell Y’all

388

Is Reformed Theology Flawed?

389

Can I Get A Witness?

390

Pass The Tea: Live At LDR17

391

Interview: Rob Lee

392

Live From Memphis

393

Ta-nehisi Coates and Black Atheism

394

Black In The South

395

Kill The Culture Wars

396

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

397

Allow Us To Re(Re)introduce Ourselves

398

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

399

The Notorious S.O.P.

400

SBC, Alt-Right, And Condemning White Supremacy

401

Am I Safe?

402

Bonus: Charlottesville

403

The Great Woke Debate

404

Bonus: The Fierce Urgency of Now

405

Pass The Mic AMA

406

The N-Word’s Radioactiveness

407

Racism And Christian Education

408

Confederate Monuments And Commencement Speakers

409

Bonus: A Brief Biblical Theology Of Race

410

After TGC 2017

411

Responding To Controversy

412

Pass The Remote: Get Out

413

Pass The Tea: Gender Apartheid

414

Interview: Jarvis Williams

415

Is The Black Church Dead

416

Black History Month Recap

417

Reflections On President Obama’s Legacy

418

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

419

The Fallacy Of Proximity: Vicki Yohe And Paula White

420

Black History Month

421

Pass The Mic AMA

422

Interview: Andy Crouch

423

Who We Are, What We Do

424

Safe Havens In Tumultuous Times

425

Interview: Michael Wear

426

Processing Donald Trump With Jemar Tisby

427

Kaepernick, Patriotism, And Peaceful Protest

428

Perspective

429

Hamilton

430

Pass The Remote: Luke Cage

431

Top 5 Cultural Artifacts Of 2016

432

Interview: Doug Logan

433

Sho Baraka’s The Narrative And 13th

434

Keith Lamont Scott, Terence Crutcher, And NMAAHC

435

Education And The Expectations Project

436

The Election Of 2016

437

LDR 2016: RAAN Staff Roundtable

438

Interview: Soong-Chan Rah

439

LDR 2016: Checking In With Pass The Mic

440

LDR 2016: Respectability Politics Reimagined with Ekemini Uwan

441

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

442

Mary Jane, Zendaya, And Representation

443

A Pastoral Perspective On The 2016 Election

444

TGC And The Anniversary Of Mike Brown’s Death

445

Real Hurt, Real Hope: Racial Tension And Perseverance

446

Interview: Eugene Scott

447

Olympics, Flooding, And Prison

448

Black Lives Matter And The Christian Response

449

Jesse Williams And General Assembly

450

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

451

Orlando and Stanford

452

Interview: Collin Hansen

453

Tamir Rice Settlement

454

Reformed Theology Is Indigenous To African Americans

455

Ta-Nehisi Coates

456

Hats And Harambe

457

Conversing Diversely

458

Interview: Sho Baraka

459

Black Panther And The Longing For A Hero King

460

Russell Moore V Donald Trump

461

Flint, Larry Wilmore, and Trump

462

The A.R.C. Of Racial Reconciliation

463

How To Be A White Ally

464

Processing James White with Jemar Tisby

465

Defining Systemic Racism

466

Defining White Privilege

467

Defining Implicit Bias

468

Artistic Activism

469

Response To The Dividing Line

470

Interview: Vincent Bacote

471

Interview: Alexander Jun

472

Progressed Evangelicalism

473

Interview: Kevin Smith

474

Flint Water Crisis and #OSCARSSOWHITE