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Black Coffee and Theology Podcast

Black Coffee and Theology Podcast

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A podcast hosting musings and conversations around practical theology.
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Black Coffee and Theology PodcastSep 16, 2021

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Robert's Crown of Hybrid Flowers
Mar 15, 202452:21
For the walk home (bonus episode)
Mar 09, 202404:02
Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being
Feb 16, 202448:58
Black and Alive with Rose J. Percy

Black and Alive with Rose J. Percy

Season 4 has begun and I am joined by Rose J. Percy as an honored guest/co-host/collaborator/dreamer. Please check her substack out at agentlelanding.substack.com/ If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com


Feb 01, 202438:34
Season finale - Salvation Thoughts
Dec 22, 202307:45
Revisiting Hagar with Alicia Crosby

Revisiting Hagar with Alicia Crosby

In this episode I sit down with public theologian and writer Alicia Crosby. We discuss Hagar, our friend Camille's book Hero and the Whore and more. Please go to aliciatcrosby.com for more info. If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Nov 30, 202343:16
I won't shut up with Ally Henny

I won't shut up with Ally Henny

In this episode I sit down with author Ally Henny to talk about her book I Won't Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When The World Tries To Silence You. Please go to allyhenny.com for more of her work. If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Nov 09, 202301:02:42
Black Lives Matter
Oct 19, 202310:32
Baptized in Wonder with Nya S. Abernathy

Baptized in Wonder with Nya S. Abernathy

In this episode I sit down with Nya S. Abernathy to talk about where she is finding God. Find her wonderful writing on substack at ofearthandofstars.substack.com/about You can find the series of poems that I did with her and Sharifa here: ofearthandofstars.substack.com/p/poems-for-the-stars-part-three If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Sep 21, 202337:16
I have decided to stick with love
Aug 24, 202306:24
Curiosity as a theological ethic
Aug 17, 202313:04
Contemplatives in Black Part 2 with Rose J Percy

Contemplatives in Black Part 2 with Rose J Percy

I am joined by the wonderful Rose on this part 2 episode as we talk about what it means to be Black and a Contemplative. Please find her work at rosejpercy.com. If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Aug 03, 202333:39
Contemplatives in Black Part 1 with Rose J Percy

Contemplatives in Black Part 1 with Rose J Percy

I am joined by the wonderful Rose on this episode as we talk about what it means to be Black and a Contemplative. Please find her work at rosejpercy.com. If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Jul 28, 202335:06
Courage, Pain, and Disability with KJ Ramsey
Jul 20, 202317:14
Finding God in the simple
Jul 13, 202305:53
(Full episode) Jaded with Marla Taviano
Jun 27, 202347:51
Full Episode: Writing as Wounded Healers with Jessica Kantrowitz
Jun 08, 202347:22
Speaking to God in public
May 03, 202309:49
Grace Can Lead Us Home with Kevin Nye

Grace Can Lead Us Home with Kevin Nye

I sit down to talk with Kevin about his book and his advocacy work with people experiencing homelessness. Please go to his website kevinmnye.com for more info. If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Apr 21, 202350:32
When We Belong with Rohadi

When We Belong with Rohadi

In this episode I sit down with Rohadi and talk about his new book and deconstruction. Please go to Rohadi.com for more info and his work. If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Apr 15, 202346:15
Jaded, Good Morning, and Writing as Wounded Healers with Marla and Jessica
Apr 07, 202354:28
The Book of Common Courage with KJ Ramsey
Mar 23, 202340:52
Hebrews 11 and Women’s History Month

Hebrews 11 and Women’s History Month

Please check out the post I reference here: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com/p/hebrews-11-and-womens-history-month?embeddedPostPublications= If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Mar 22, 202305:55
The Good Shepherd with Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman
Mar 16, 202342:30
(Audio fixed) A Spiritual Walk With Howard Thurman and Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown
Mar 10, 202351:36
On Repentance and Repair with Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Mar 02, 202352:45
Where are you finding God? with Ajanaé Dawkins

Where are you finding God? with Ajanaé Dawkins

This is part of a segment that I am doing highlighting the places that different people are finding God. In this episode I sit down with poet and theologian Ajanaé Dawkins. Please check out VS the podcast, and her work at ecotheo collectiveIf you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app.  You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com

Feb 23, 202345:07
Black Disability Theology (Part 2)

Black Disability Theology (Part 2)

This bonus episode is part 2 of a conversation where I sit down with Esperanza Gene and Rose J. Percy and talk about the lived realities of those with chronic illness and are also Black.
Rose: Find out about Rose's offerings, her podcast, and her newsletter at
www.rosejpercy.com
Esperanza: Find Esperanza on Twitter at @land_of_Za
If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Feb 19, 202337:24
Black Disability Theology (Part 1)

Black Disability Theology (Part 1)

In this episode I sit down with Esperanza Gene and Rose J. Percy and talk about the lived realities of those with chronic illness and are also Black.
Rose: Find out about Rose's offerings, her podcast, and her newsletter at
www.rosejpercy.com
Esperanza: Find Esperanza on Twitter at @land_of_Za
If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app. You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Feb 16, 202342:01
Remember Me Now with special guest Faitth Brooks

Remember Me Now with special guest Faitth Brooks

I sit down to talk about Faitth’s new wonderful book “Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women.” Please check out her website at faitthbrooks.com and you can order her book there as well. Also check out her podcast Melanated Faith.
If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app.
You can also support me financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen
Finally, you can check out my writing at: musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com
Feb 09, 202340:02
Still Drinking Coffee…Still Doing Theology

Still Drinking Coffee…Still Doing Theology

Here for another season talking about God and the world.
Feb 02, 202305:17
Season 2 Closer

Season 2 Closer

Wrapping up this season and looking ahead. It has been so good to think about who is God to us now all season. Here are some resources to continue to aid on the journey:

1. Living Stones in the Household of God edited by Linda E. Thomas

2. Sisters in the Wilderness by Delores S. Williams

3. Sharifa Stevens' substack- https://sharifahstevens.substack.com/

4. Rose J. Percy's substack- https://agentlelanding.substack.com/

Dec 01, 202209:53
Beyond Welcome with Karen Gonzalez
Nov 03, 202258:45
Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th Century America with Dr. Kate Hanch

Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th Century America with Dr. Kate Hanch

In this episode I sit down with friend Dr Hanch and talk about her new book Storied Witness that highlights the works and lives of three phenomenal Black women. Please go and buy/support this book! Enjoy. 

Resources:

Allen, Richard. The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. Philadelphia: Martin & Boden, Printers, 1833. Documents of the South. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. First Published in 2000. <http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/allen/menu.html>.

Andrews, William L., Lee, Jarena, Elaw, Zilpha, and Foote, Julia A. J. Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Bassard, Katherine Clay. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Bostic, Joy R. African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Campbell, Charles L., Cilliers, Johan. Preaching Fools: The Gospel as a Rhetoric of Folly. Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2012.

Elaw, Zilpha. Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw. Kimberly Blockett, ed. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2021.

Oct 22, 202244:46
GMG-God Can Change It
Sep 29, 202201:27
Finding God Again with Sam Gay
Sep 22, 202242:55
Towards a Constructive Faith with Camille (maybe a cuss word or two)
Sep 08, 202233:03
Who Is God To Us In Our Softness? With Karla and Rose

Who Is God To Us In Our Softness? With Karla and Rose

Karla Mendoza and Rose J Percy join me for this conversation as we talk about God and how God shows up for us. Karla has a podcast El Cafecito with Karla and Rose has a podcast Dear Soft Black Woman
Aug 12, 202245:26
Sacred Pulse and Sacred Rhythms Again with April Fiet

Sacred Pulse and Sacred Rhythms Again with April Fiet

I am joined with author, pastor and writer April Fiet for more on her book Sacred Pulse: Holy Rhythms for Overwhelmed Souls. Please go and buy her book wherever books are sold
Aug 04, 202232:25
Bonus Episode: What Does Equality Look Like?

Bonus Episode: What Does Equality Look Like?

This bonus episode is a talk that I gave recently entitled “What Does The Negro Require? Lasting Equality That Doesn’t Center Whiteness.
Jul 15, 202224:46
GMG-My Heart is not Peripheral
Jul 15, 202201:23
What Ails You Hagar?
Jun 23, 202211:39
The Shadows Shall Not Overtake Us

The Shadows Shall Not Overtake Us

Part of a regular series on affirmations that I do.
May 27, 202201:33
Liberation, God, and a Faith That Matters with Casey Overton
May 20, 202243:03
The God Who Speaks To Us In The Darkness
May 17, 202217:52
Godtalk, art that liberates and more with Rev Mia
May 13, 202241:40
Womanist Theology, Star Trek, and Strong Black Women with Sharifa Stevens
Apr 22, 202252:36
Disability and the Church (with Lamar Hardwick)-Part 2
Apr 10, 202227:22
Disability and the Church (with Lamar Hardwick)-Part 1
Apr 09, 202235:56
Deconstruction and Faith with Camille Hernandez
Apr 01, 202229:07