Truth's Table

In this episode, Ekemini and Christina sit down at the table with Eric Thomas to discuss his book, You Owe You, which is now a New York Times Bestseller! If you feel like success is for others, that only certain people get to have their dreams fulfilled, Eric Thomas’s You Owe You is your wake-up call. His urgent message to stop waiting for inspiration to strike and take control of your life is one he wishes someone had given him when he was a teenager—lost, homeless, failing in school, and dealing with the challenges of being a young Black man in America. Once he was able to break free from thinking of himself as a victim and truly understand his strengths, he switched the script. And now, with this book, Thomas reveals how you, too, can rewrite your life’s script. With support, he recognized that his unique gift is being able to capture the attention of all kinds of people in all kinds of settings—boardrooms, locker rooms, churches, classrooms, even the streets—thanks to his wealth of experiences and comman

In this episode, Ekemini and Christina sit down at the table to discuss their experience as press for Bishop TD Jakes Final Woman Thou Art Loosed (WTAL) conference. They talk about why it was important for Truth’s Table to attend the conference and what the conference meant to them. They also give an honest yet gracious analysis of their Woman Thou Art Loosed Experience. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table Listeners can save 35% off Logos Bible Software when you purchase here: https://www.logos.com/events/truthstable Truth’s Table Discount for A Just Mission by Mekdes Haddis: Save 30% off A Just Mission when you order at https://www.ivpress.com/a-just-mission using promo code TRUTH22. That’s promo code TRUTH22 at ivpress.com Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://w

It’s our final BlackGirlMagic interview of the season, y’all! We are excited to have Samantha McCoy at the table with us! Samantha McCoy has provided communications support to corporations, nonprofits and entrepreneurs for over 15 years. As a public relations professional, she connects brilliant leaders with opportunities to reach new audiences and share their expertise with local and national media. She uses her industry knowledge and past experience in radio production to create holistic PR strategies that deliver continuous results. Samantha is an experienced public speaker who is passionate about equipping leaders to share their knowledge with boldness and confidence. She has a Bachelor's in Corporate Communications from Elon University and a Master's in Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus. She loves God, quality time with friends, and great food. When she's not working, you're most likely to find her on the beach. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us

In this episode, Christina is sitting at the table with Dr. Monica Coleman author of Bipolar Faith. They discuss the intersection of faith and mental health as Dr. Coleman shares her own experience with bipolar disorder. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Learn more about Dr. Coleman here: Monica A. Coleman is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. She spent over ten years in graduate theological education at Claremont School of Theology and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Answering her call to ministry at age 19, Dr. Coleman brings her experiences in evangelical Christianity, black church traditions, global ecumenical work, and indigenous spirituality to her discussions of religion. Dr. Coleman is the author or editor of six books and several articles that focus on the role of faith in addressing critical social and philosophical issues. Her memoir Bipolar Faith shares her life-long dance with trauma and depression, and how she discovers a new and liberat

In this episode, Ekemini is sitting at the table with authors/creatives, Morgan Harper Nichols and Andre Henry to talk about what it takes to pursue your passions, callings, and to nurture your gifts. They discuss the highs and the lows of being creatives in the public square. Get ready for this authentic and wise conversation. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Learn more about our guests: Morgan Harper Nichols: Popular Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols has created her life’s work around the stories of others. Morgan’s popular Instagram feed (@morganharpernichols) has garnered a loyal online community of over two million, and she is the author of "All Along You Were Blooming", a book of poems and art she created in response to the personal stories submitted by her friends and followers. She also hosts a podcast, The Morgan Harper Nichols Show, where she shares daily reflections on finding meaning and peace in life and work. Morgan has also performed as a vocalist on

Disclaimer: Due to technical difficulties, Christina’s audio contribution is unavailable during this episode. This might cause a disruption in the listening experience you are accustomed to from Truth’s Table. We apologize for any inconvenience. In this episode, Ekemini is sitting at the table with authors/creatives, Morgan Harper Nichols and Andre Henry to talk about what it takes to pursue your passions, callings, and to nurture your gifts. They discuss the highs and the lows of being creatives in the public square. Get ready for this authentic and wise conversation. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Learn more about our guests: Morgan Harper Nichols: Popular Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols has created her life’s work around the stories of others. Morgan’s popular Instagram feed (@morganharpernichols) has garnered a loyal online community of over two million, and she is the author of "All Along You Were Blooming", a book of poems and art she created in respo

In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are sitting at the table with an exceptional panel of Black children and teen authors: Khristi Lauren Adams, Esau McCaulley, Trillia Newbill, and Dorena Williamson are at the table! They discuss the importance of writing books for our children and teens, the joys, challenges, and rewards of writing for this particular audience. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table! Learn more about our guests: Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, author, youth advocate and ordained Baptist minister. Khristi is the author of Parable of the Brown Girl, Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way and its middle grade version Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way. Khristi also works as Dean of Spiritual Life & Equity at the Hill School and is an instructor of Religious Studies. Khristi is a graduate of Temple University with a degree in Advertising and a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary where she obtained a Master of Divinity degree. Rev. Esau

It wouldn’t be a Truth’s Table season without a BlackGirlMagic Interview! We are honored to have Christina Faith at the table as our August Black Girl Magic guest. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Learn more about Christina Faith: Christina was born in Atlantic City, NJ and creatively made in Philadelphia, PA, Christina Faith is a director, writer and producer with a passion for bold, original storytelling in all genres. After securing her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and African American Studies from Rutgers University, Faith furthered her education by pursuing a Masters of Divinity from Eastern University. Prepared to use her degrees to help better the world around us with a career in social work, Faith’s undeniable love for storytelling and cinema led her to change paths to filmmaking. Decision made, Faith committed completely to learning how to tell stories with power and purpose in all forms of visual media. She likes to say (partially in jest): “As a filmmaker, I’m 100% s

In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are back at the table to talk about their new daily podcast, “Get in The Word with Truth’s Table” created in partnership with IVP. For just 15-20 minutes a day, you can listen to Christina and Ekemini narrate the whole Bible in a year Scripture and offer thoughtful prayers.Get ready to hear them divulge how this podcast came about, why it was important, and the hard yet loving labor it takes to create a daily podcast of this caliber. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Make sure you subscribe, listen, and review our new podcast, Get in The Word With Truth’s Table: https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGUOttAsgTJEo2HVwKPVC?si=527b07ee11864953 Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table Listeners can purchase the Christian Standard Bible: https://csbible.com/ Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Trut

In this special episode of Truth’s Table, Ekemini sits down at the table with Nelba Marquez-Greene, the mother of Ana Grace Marquez-Greene, who was killed in the Sandy Hook school massacre. Truth’s Table is honored to have Nelba at the table to talk about her beloved daughter, Ana Grace, ongoing grief, and political action needed to keep our children safe. Pull up a chair, grab some tissue, and have a seat at the table with us. Learn more about Nelba Marquez-Greene: Nelba holds a Bachelor of Music from the Hartt School and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Joseph College. Nelba taught and supervised at the Family Therapy program at the University of Winnipeg’s Aurora Family Therapy Centre and later worked as the Coordinator for Klingberg Family Therapy Center’s outpatient child and adolescent psychiatric clinic. She also served as adjunct faculty at Central Connecticut State University. Nelba founded the CTAMFT (Connecticut Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) Diversity Commi

Y’all, we have come to the conclusion of our State of The Black Church series. Did not our hearts burn within us? Ours did! But before we conclude, we thought it necessary to invite Dr. Erika Gault to the table to close out this series by talking to us about the Black church in the digital space. Ekemini is sitting at the table with Dr. Gault to discuss her book, Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop. Her research captures the dynamics of the digital religious lives of Black millennials on social media. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us! Learn more about Dr. Erika Gault: Dr. Gault – a scholar of Black religion and culture – is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona Dr. Gault graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a doctorate in American Studies. Dr. Gault’s scholarly work demonstrates a sustained focus on the impact and outcomes of religion and technology in Black life. Her work focuses on the u

In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table with a panel full of dynamic pastors: Rev. Dr. Cynthia Hale, Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas, Rev. Dr. Danielle Brown, & Rev. Dr. CJ Rhodes. All four of these skilled pastor-scholars bring great insight, experience, and wisdom to bear on the subject of Black preaching. As they discuss the gospel, the content of preaching, the cost of preaching, the humanity of the preacher and much more. Learn more about each of our guests below: Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale is the founding and Senior Pastor of the Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia. Dr. Hale has been in ministry for 43 years. Read more about Rev. Dr. Cynthia L. Hale here. Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas, PhD, currently serves as the Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Homiletics and Director of the Academy of Preaching and Celebration at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana. Read more about Rev. Dr. Frank A. Thomas, PhD here. Rev. Dr. Danielle L. Brown was elected the

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! Learn more about our guests: 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 Peac

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. Learn more about our guests: 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 apolog

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 Y

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. Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table listeners can join the #DebtFreeDegree Patreon Community at either level, send me a message in Patreon to Dr. Roz, mention Truth's Table, and receive a refund half of your first month's membership fee www.Patreon.com/DebtFreeDegree Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/truthstable

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. Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table listeners can join the #DebtFreeDegree Patreon Community at either level, send me a message in Patreon to Dr. Roz, mention Truth's Table, and receive a refund half of your first month's membership fee www.Patreon.com/DebtFreeDegree Truth’s Table Listeners can purchase The Enneagram For Black Liberation by Chi Chi Agorom wherever books are sold: https://www.target.com/p/th

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! Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table listeners can join the #DebtFreeDegree Patreon Community at either level, send me a message in Patreon to Dr. Roz, mention Truth's Table, and receive a refund half of your first month's membership fee www.Patreon.com/DebtFreeDegree Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/truthstable

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! Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table listeners can join the #DebtFreeDegree Patreon Community at either level, send me a message in Patreon to Dr. Roz, mention Truth's Table, and receive a refund half of your first month's membership fee www.Patreon.com/DebtFreeDegree Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/truthstable

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! Purchase our new book! Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Table-Womens-Musings-Liberation/dp/0593239733/ Truth’s Table Listeners can submit an inquiry about Jubilee Financial Services’ affordable life insurance options at https://jubileefinancialgroup.com/ Link to purchase the Christian Standard Bible: https://csbible.com/ Support Truth’s Table: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TruthsTable PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/TruthsTable Merchandise: https://teespring.com/truthstable