This week on Dr. P on the Pod, join Dr. P and her good girlfriend, Yolanda Reid, around the kitchen table for some laughing and planning for the summer.

Professor Goatley shares insight on strategies for moving forward through the lens of constructive theology, including a message to pastors running on empty.

This week on Dr. P on the Pod, Dr. P sits down with Pastor Jones as he shares his in-depth thinking and strategies on bringing the members of Compassion Baptist Church back in the building. Dr. P and Pastor Jones also share thoughts on the Black Church Beyond COVID-19.About My Guest:Pastor Watson Jones III is the Senior Pastor of Compassion Baptist Church in Chicago, IL whose mission is to reach and grow people to be passionate for God and compassion towards others.

This week on Dr. P on the Pod, Dr. P sits down with Erline as she shares insight into why she wrote her latest book, Your Voice Matters – Conversations you Dare to Have. She empowers us to speak up and move through the fear and often times uncomfortable situations that causes us to stay silent.Erline Belton is a real estate developer, organizational development consultant, the CEO and Founder of the Lyceum Group, and the author of Your Voice Matters – Conversations you Dare to Have and A Journey that Matters, your personal Living Legacy.

This week on Dr. P on the Pod, Dr. P sits down with Mr. Jefferson to discuss why we must keep talking boldly and loudly about Black Health Equity. Tobacco is one of the leading causes of death among African Americans. NO Menthol Sunday is coming up on May 16th.Delmonte Jefferson is the Executive Director of The Center for Black Health & Equity (formerly known as NAATPN, Inc.), a national organization that facilitates public health programs to benefit communities and people of African descent.

For National Minority Health Month, Dr. P interviews former NBA player and coach Don Chaney and his wife, Jackie, about his diagnosis of hereditary transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (hATTR-CM). ATTR-CM is a type of amyloidosis (a group of diseases in which certain proteins change shape, or “misfold,” and can build up in different parts of the body) that affects the heart and is associated with heart failure – it's also underrecognized and underdiagnosed even by doctors. Don and Jackie are working to raise awareness of the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of the condition, including how the Black/African American community is disproportionately affected. They are urging others who have heart failure, are experiencing unresolved symptoms and have a family history of heart disease to talk to a doctor or cardiologist. Visit www.yourheartsmessagewithdon.com to learn more and fill out a doctor discussion guide to help you at your next doctor’s appointment. The health information contained herein is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace discussions with a healthcare provider.

Discussing our feelings about the conviction of the policeman who killed Brother George Floyd, Dr. Robinson gives us an in-depth look into her thinking and vision on how the church must begin to tackle real life issues – hard core issues – issues that matter to our everyday lives.The Rev. Dr. Dominique A. Robinson serves as the newly appointed inaugural Dean of Chapel and Assistant Professor of Religion at Wiley College – “the home of the Great Debaters” – in Marshall, TX. She is the founder of iHomiletic™, a groundbreaking homiletic that employs social media linguistics and technology as a methodology to reconnect millennials to the Church. Dr. Robinson has preached the Gospel across the United States and abroad in Guyana, South America, Barbados, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.  Her life’s goal is to fuse her doctrine, discipline, and testimony to be an effective advocate and ally for those who are marginalized.

This week's Dr. P on the Pod, we are revisiting a podcast in which Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall, shared her thoughts on health disparities as it relates to COVID-19. Her 35-year career placed her on the frontlines of health care as a clinician, educator, researcher, and leader in the biopharmaceuticals and life sciences industries. Dr. Lewis-Hall provides us with a frank discussion on why African Americans must become engaged in all stages of vaccine development, including COVID-19.

The Balm In Gilead and The Black Church Food Security Project is launching the African American Church Community Garden and Food Security Project in South Carolina this week. Food insecurity, food deserts, food inequity are real issues for the Black community. Churches with land to grow food can make a difference!!About My Guest: ShaVon Terrel, Deputy Director, Black Church Food Security NetworkA rising voice in the Black Food and Land Sovereignty Community. Sha’Von Terrell is a child of the Deep South, freedom dreamer and a strategic good systems planner

As we celebrate the mystical, transformative days of Holy Week, Bishop-Elect McRae and Dr. P discuss the crossroads of the Black Church one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.