Truth's Table

In this episode of Truth’s Table, Ekemini and Christina are joined by Rev. Dr. Neichelle Guidry and Dr. Kenyatta Gilbert to discuss preaching in the Black church. The art of Black preaching and the interior life of the preacher are discussed in this episode. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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Rev. Dr. Neichelle R. Guidry currently serves as the Dean of the Chapel and the Director of the WISDOM Center at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a spiritual daughter of New Creation Christian Fellowship of San Antonio, Texas, where the Bishop David Michael Copeland and the Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland are her pastors and where she was ordained to ministry in 2010. She is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University (2007, BA, Lambda Pi Eta) and Yale Divinity

School (2010, M.Div.), where she was the 2010 recipient of the Walcott Prize for Clear and Effective Public and Pulpit Speaking, and the 2019 recipient of the William Sloane Coffee Alumni Award for Peace and Justice. She is also a graduate of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (2017), where she

completed her Doctor of Philosophy in the area of Liturgical Studies with a concentration in Homiletics. Her dissertation is entitled, "Towards a Womanist Homiletical Theology for Subverting Rape Culture." She is a 2020 intitiate into the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College, and the Founder of Black Girl Black Coffee, a specialty coffee

company that centralizes the voices and stories of Black women. She is the creator of shepreaches, a virtual community and professional development

organization that aspires to uplift African-American millennial women in ministry through theological reflection, fellowship, and liturgical curation. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.

The Rev. Dr. Kenyatta R. Gilbert — professor of homiletics at Howard University School of Divinity — is a nationally recognized expert on African American preaching. A prolific writer and oft-featured expert on Black preaching, civil rights, and social justice, Dr. Gilbert has authored countless sermons and classroom lectures, as well as four books: Exodus Preaching: Crafting Sermons about Justice and Hope; A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights; The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching; and Just Living: Meditations for Engaging our Life and Times. His writing has also been featured by such outlets as PBS NewsHour, Sojourners, Word & Way, and The Conversation.

In 2011, he launched The Preaching Project, a ministry aimed at equipping ministers to better serve African American churches and communities. Dr. Gilbert is married to Dr. Allison Blow Gilbert, a pediatric physician. The Gilberts have three daughters, Olivia (18), Ella (15), and Ava (12).

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The State of The Black Church Series is back! Ekemini and Christina are sitting at the table with the leaders of the current Black apologetics movement, Lisa V. Fields and Clare Williams. This conversation is multifaceted and spans the Black diaspora. You don’t want to miss this one, so pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us.

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Lisa V. Fields is the founder and President of the Jude 3 Project, a Christian apologetics organization dedicated to helping the black community know what they believe and why. She has spoken at evangelism, apologetic and biblical literacy events at various universities and churches across the country. She has a passion for teaching the Word of God. She believes it's important for Christians to engage the culture and represent a biblical worldview. Above all, Lisa hopes to be marked by her love for God and people, because in her mind that is the only thing that really matters.

Clare Williams is the founder of Get Real, a Christian apologetics organisation which addresses questions about Christianity, particularly from the black British community. She has a degree in English Literature and Language from Oxford University, and she completed postgraduate training in theology at Wycliffe Hall. Clare has an MA in Leadership and an MA in Culture, Diaspora and Ethnicity. She is now starting her PhD journey in Theology, focusing upon apologetics and activism. Clare enjoys engaging with questions of culture, truth, identity and the gospel.

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In this special episode, Ekemini is joined by global superstar and Yemi Alade. With four albums, one EP and many smash hits such as Johnny, Ferrari, NaGode and Bum Bum under her belt, Yemi Alade is the #1 Afropop female

artist on the African continent.

Nigerian afropop/R&B artiste, singer/songwriter, composer, actress and

entertainer, she is popularly referred to as the “Ghen ghen babe” and “the Yoruba-Ibo girl” by virtue of her electrifying stage-craft, music, edgy and un-matched style, evolving African style and her bi-tribal descent.

She is a BET Awards 2015 and 2016 nominee for Best International Act

Africa, a two-times nominee MOBO Awards for Best International Act 2014

and 2015, Winner MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) for Best Female 2015

and 2016. She has received several awards and nominations, including

MTV African Music, African Music Video awards, City people Entertainment,

MOBO, YEM and Eloy awards.

Yemi Alade is also the first African female afropop artist to hit over 100

million views on Youtube and VEVO with her Smash hit single “Johnny”,

which is now the most viewed video from an African female artiste. Amongst

all these, she is the first African female to hit one million subscribers on

YouTube.

In July 2019, Yemi Alade was featured on “My Power” and “Don’t Jealous Me”, tracks from Beyoncé’s compilation album The Lion King: The Gift. She appeared on the

track alongside Mr Eazi and Tekno. In September 2020, Yemi Alade was made a UNDP Goodwill ambassador.

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In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table! Christina is asking Ekemini about her final chapter, “Diaspora Dreams: Blackness as The Image of God” and the concluding chapter of our book, “Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Ekemini talks about the importance of Pan-Africanism, why this chapter holds so much significance to her and the process of writing about blackness and the image of God.

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In this episode, Ekemini, Michelle, and Christina are together at the table for the LAST time as a trio. This episode is Michelle’s final time on Truth’s Table. Listen closely, as Christina and Ekemini discuss Michelle’s final book chapter, “The Keys to The Kingdom of God” in our book Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Pull up a chair at the table as Michelle talks about the motivation behind this book chapter and more.

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In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table! Ekemini interviews Christina about her book chaper, “Reborn to Resist” in our book, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Christina explains the motivation behind this chapter and why it’s important to fight systemic sins as well as personal sins. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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In this episode, Ekemini and Michelle are at the table! Ekemini interviews Michelle about her chapter, “Love & Justice: Multiethnic Worship” in our book, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table! Ekemini interviews Christina about her chapter, “Disciplining the Church” in our book, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. They talk about what it means to hold the church accountable from the bottom up and they break down church discipline. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table! Ekemini interviews Christina about her chapter, “I's Married Now! Christian Marriage For Grown Black Women,” in our book, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Christina talks about why she decided to write about Black marriage via her marriage and what it means for a Black man and a Black woman to love each other when racism threatens to keep the two apart. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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In this episode, Ekemini, Michelle, and Christina are at the table! Ekemini and Christina interview Michelle about her chapter, “Divorce: From Chaos to Care” in our book, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation. Michelle shares why she decided to write this deeply personal chapter eventhough she had never spoken publicly about it on Truth’s Table. She talks about how much she decided to share and why it was important for her to write about divorce. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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