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Jarvis Williams: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity and Apologetics

13th July 2021

For the first time ever, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast reveals the future! It’s the last episode of season 2, and it’s quite possible that your mind won’t be able to handle everything that takes place in this thrilling season finale. Your intrepid cohosts turn out to be not only pastors and […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, black church, Blog, Book reviews, Books, featured, History, Learn, ministry, music review, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, Podcast, racism, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: African American, African-American church, apologetics, Baker Academic, Bible, black, black church, critical race theory, critical theory, CRT, diversity, ethnic diversity, gospel, grace, Jarvis Williams, multicultural, multicultural church, multiethnic, multiethnic church, New Testament, prophecy, race, racial reconciliation, racism, redemptive kingdom diversity, SBTS, social justice, Sojourn Church, Sojourn Community Church, Southern Seminary, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Village Church, Village Institute

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Soul Movie

7th January 2021

This episode is all about Soul. That’s because Garrick and Timothy recently headed to the theaters to watch the Soul movie, a new cinematic feature produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. And by “headed to the theaters,” what they mean is that each of them headed downstairs to their respective home theaters, where […]

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Lisa V. Fields: Apologetics through Eyes of Color + “Crossroads” (Robert Johnson)

28th July 2020

The blues, Robert Johnson, and The Jackson 5 are a few of the stars of this week’s episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast. Lisa V. Fields—popular apologetics speaker and founder of the Jude 3 Project—joins Timothy to discuss a recent apologetics curriculum from Jude 3 Project. Along the way, Lisa reveals […]

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Culture: How Scripture Became Part of the Story that Ended Slavery

19th June 2020

For centuries, the Scriptures were twisted and distorted to provide support for racism and race-based slavery. It is no exaggeration to state that the enslavement of African Americans would never have persisted as long as it did without the support of persons who claimed to follow Scripture. At the same time, Christian ethics were also one […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: African American, black, Black Lives Matter, church history, Gregory of Nyssa, Juneteenth, race, racial justice, racism, slavery, Southern Baptist

Culture: The Long Shadow of Racism in America

11th May 2020

The institution of American slavery has been called America’s “national birth defect.” “Black Americans were”—in the words of one professor of political science—“a founding population [of the American colonies]. Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together, Europeans by choice and Africans in chains.” These events happened far more recently than many Americans seem […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, black, George Whitefield, manstealing, Middle Passage, racial justice, racism, Scripture, slave trade, slavery

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: The Cross and the Lynching Tree + “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Jimi Hendrix)

22nd March 2019

What happened to the body of Jesus after his death on the cross? According to the New Testament Gospels, his body was buried in a tomb and raised on the third day. And yet, according to some scholars, the body of Jesus was abandoned and consumed by wild beasts. So how do we know that Jesus was actually buried? That’s one of the questions that we’ll explore in the first half of the program. In the second half, we’ll search for truth in a song that Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock and discover a yearning for justice that God has placed in every human heart that leads us to protest injustice. Then, we’ll reach inside the Infinity Gauntlet and pit Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters against Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: African American, apologetics, cross, crucifixion, Gospels, James Cone, Jim Crow, Jimi Hendrix, lynching, podcast, protest, Star-Spangled Banner, Woodstock

Family Ministry: Discipleship and Family in African-American History

15th November 2016

A few months ago, I sat down with my colleagues Kevin Smith and Kevin Jones to discuss the dynamics of discipleship and family ministry in African-American communities. Rev. Smith is the executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland and Delaware. Dr. Jones is a scholar of the history of education and coauthor of the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, African-American history, black history, Kevin Jones, Kevin Smith, racial reconciliation, racism

Church History: The Racist Heresy in Southern Baptist History

15th September 2016

The founders of the Southern Baptist Convention and of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary were zealous defenders of biblical orthodoxy. They were also heretics.

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, church history, race, racism

Culture: Remembering Emmett Till

2nd September 2016

In September 1955, the bloated and broken corpse of Emmett Till arrived in Chicago. His mother identified his body and made the decision to leave his casket open for the funeral. “Let the people see what I’ve seen,” she told the owner of the funeral home, and the people did. What they saw changed the world.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: African American, African-American history, black history, Emmett Till, racism

Culture: The Gospel and Racial Reconciliation

26th August 2016

Racial reconciliation is not primarily about healing the wounds of racial subjugation that so deeply scar our nation’s history. Racial reconciliation is not primarily about seeking justice for immigrants and refugees. It’s not about reducing conflict between persons with differing concentrations of melanin. It’s not even primarily about a systemic lack of opportunities for certain ethnicities—though all […]

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Filed Under: Audio, featured, Lead, Learn Tagged With: African American, Black Lives Matter, Matt Hall, race, racial reconciliation, slavery

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