Sponsor(s): IVP

Episode Description: In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are sitting at the table with Beth Moore. We are in a polarized and contentious presidential election year. As Christians we are called to courage and love, while resisting fear. Beth shares her own personal journey with fear, anxiety, and how we can fight it in our own lives. You don’t want to miss this episode full of biblical wisdom.

Learn more about Beth Moore: Author and Speaker Beth Moore is a dynamic teacher whose conferences take her across the globe. She has written numerous bestselling books and Bible studies. She is also the founder and visionary of Living Proof Ministries based in Houston, TX. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, she is the fourth child of a retired Army major and a homemaker. Before the family moved to Houston in her teen years, Beth spent most of her childhood in Arkadelphia, Arkansas where her father managed the local cinema.

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Episode Description: In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are at the table with Eric Sapp to talk about how Christians ought to exercise their kingdom citizenship in the context of civic engagement. Eric discusses the connection between the apocalyptic, democracy, politics, and our overall witness as Christians during a fraught presidential election cycle. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

Learn more about Eric Sapp:

As an entrepreneur, faith leader, and political advisor, Eric Sapp has spent his career supporting communities all over the world in their efforts to promote the common good. In recent years, he has become a nationally-recognized leader in the “Data for Good” movement and helped pioneer breakthroughs in empathy-based machine learning and more meaningful AI, leading to his appointment as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council focusing on this areas along with combating computational propaganda. Eric has worked in the Halls of Congress, Pentagon, and church sanctuaries.

Eric co-founded Common Good Strategies in 2005, which became the Eleison Group in 2008. The firm rose to national prominence following its successful new approach to faith outreach and values-based messaging through its role advising numerous winning Democratic Senate and gubernatorial campaigns in 2006. As Eleison (and then Public Democracy) increasingly shifted from advising on campaigns to directing and self-funding them, Eric founded a partner 501c3, Public Democracy America (where he currently serves on the Board), to expand the mission and deliver greater impacts.

Eric has always believed that before people can be persuaded or mobilized, their values and aspirations must be understood, and that understanding individuals’ core convictions and sense of place in the world is the best way to connect with them (and help them connect with others). Public Democracy seeks to empower people from all over the world by doing just that through its technology.

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Episode Description: Y’all we are still in our political discipleship series and you need to buckle up for this episode because Dr. Mika Edmondson is that the table with Christina and Ekemini to talk all things end times. Forget what you watch in the Left Behind movies. We are talking about the different views about the end times and how our view of the end times impacts our politics. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

Learn more about our guest, Rev. Dr. Mika Edmondson:

Mika and his wife, Dr. Christina Edmondson along with their two daughters and Mika's mother, have relocated from Grand Rapids, Michigan where Mika served as founding Pastor of New City Fellowship, an Orthodox Presbyterian congregation.

Mika earned his Doctorate at Calvin Theological Seminary, with his dissertation entitled Unearned Suffering is Redemptive: The Roots and Implications of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Redemptive Suffering Theodicy. Mika was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Calvin, where he also contributed as an Adjunct Professor. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics at Hampton University. Mika has also authored several theological publications and has guest-lectured at many distinguished institutes and conferences.

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Sponsor(s): The Confession of Evangelical Conviction

Episode Description: Hey, y’all! So last week you heard Christina, Ekemini, and Lisa Sharon Harper process their experience of the DNC while they were still there and before Vice President Kamala Harris’ historical acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination. In this episode, Christina and Ekemini are back at the table to give you their take on the entire DNC, including VP Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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Episode Description: In this episode, Ekemini and Christina are sitting at the table with Lisa Sharon Harper at the DNC! They are discussing their experience at the DNC, the meaning of VP Kamala Harris, the historic implications of her nomination, and the tension of nomination amid the backdrop of anti-Black violence and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

Lisa Sharon Harper is the founder and president of Freedom Road, a groundbreaking consulting group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitments that lead to common action toward a more just world. Lisa is a public theologian whose writing, speaking, activism, and training have sparked and fed the fires of reformation in the church from Ferguson and Charlottesville to South Africa, Brazil, Australia, and Ireland. Lisa’s book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family And The World--And How To Repair It All was named one of the “Best Books of 2022,” and The Very Good Gospel was named 2016 “Book of the Year” by Englewood Review of Books. The Huffington Post identified Lisa as one of 50 Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day. Follow Lisa Sharon Harper on social media @lisasharper

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Episode Description: We are back at the table with another Behind the Book episode, and our play cousin, Dr. Jemar Tisby, is at the table to talk about his latest book, The Spirit of Justice: True Stories of Faith, Race, and Resistance. Jemar Tisby (PhD, University of Mississippi) is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Color of Compromise and the award-winning How to Fight Racism. He is a historian who studies race, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century and is a professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, a historically Black college. Jemar is the founding co-host of Pass the Mic podcast, and his writing has been featured in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, and the New York Times, among others. You can follow his work through his Substack newsletter, Footnotes, and on social media JemarTisby. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

Pre-order The Spirit of Justice here: https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Justice-Stories-Faith-Resistance/dp/031014485X

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Episode Description:

Take a seat at the table and listen to this good word from Christina. Travel through one of the most provocative passages from the book of Ruth and see how God is still at work getting us ready for what’s next! Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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Sponsor(s): TT book

Episode Description:

In April 2024, Truth’s Table hosted a Faith & Child Anti-Poverty Forum in Columbia, MD at The Harriet Tubman Cultural Center. Ekemini and Christina addressed the issue of child poverty, theological views on poverty, and the ways that Christians view people in poverty. They discuss what a biblical ethic and posture toward the poor ought to be and the work we must do as Christians to alleviate poverty through policies like the Child Tax Credit. Pull up a chair and have a seat at the table with us!

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