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Woke Anti-Racist Leader in Uproar After Christian University Apologizes for his Past Appearance

Famed anti-racist leader Jemar Tisby and his many followers have come out raging after a Christian College he previously spoke at repudiated his message and presence, releasing a report highlighting the error and apologizing for having him speak in the first place, which has drawn voluminous gnashing of teeth from the teacher.

Jemar Tisby, perhaps best known for writing the theologically compromised book The Color of Compromise, is the founder of the Witness Black Christian Collective (previously called Reformed African American Network or RAAN) which is an allegedly Christian organization created to “fight injustice” all the while promoting an openly pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ radical to the role of Vice President. In fact, it was only last year that he was Hired by Ibram X. Kendi to be His New ‘Assistant Director of Narrative and Advocacy’

In early February of 2022, Grove City College (GCC) after being dogged by “persistent reports of actions allegedly indicating creeping “wokeness” at the College, particularly through the introduction of critical race theory (“CRT”)” appointed an ad hoc Special Committee to review allegations of mission-drift. The Committee has completed its work and found that by and large they have not succumbed to wokeness or the advances of CRT, but did find a few “specific instances of misalignment”- such as a created “Advisory Council on Diversity” which they say is now defunct, a presentation by the Director of Multicultural Education and Initiatives (“DMEI”) “offering suggestions for how to
understand and support minority students.” which included a TED Talk video focusing on “whiteness” and criticizing the concept of race neutrality, and Jemar Tisby’s chapel service.

This they say was a mistake, and they have taken measures to ensure it never happens again.

This has prompted the response:

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While Tisby’s chapel message was relatively benign, compared to much of the racially charged content he’s known for putting out, we applaud GCC for their repudiation and would suggest that until he deals with all the pro-LGBTQ and pro-abortion sentiment that plagues his own organization, that he not worry about it too much.

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Michelle Higgins is Out at ‘Truth’s Table.’ Are We to Blame?’

For years, Michelle Higgins was a staple of the Truths Table, being one of the primary and founding members along with co-hosts Christina Edmondson (wife of Mika Edmondson) and Ekimini Uwan. The ‘Table’ was said to be “built by Black women and for Black women” and they described their podcast as “women who love truth and seek it out wherever it leads us. We share our perspectives on politics, race, culture, entertainment, and gender which are filtered through an accessible yet robust Christian theological framework interspersed with hearty cackles and cathartic tears.”

This is an astonishing claim, given the perverse paganism and blasphemies Higgins was known for.

As early as 2019 we were taking special interest in Pastrix Higgins after discovering she was pro-choice and still being invited to conferences with Jemar Tisby and the Witness Black Christian Collective (or platformed by Jude 3 Project.) Tisby and his organizers knew about this because we told them many, many times, but that did not stop the invites from coming. (No surprise in hindsight, as their current VP Ally Henny is also pro-choice, something Tisby willingly tolerates.)

Then we broke a few stories, chief among them is a sermon she preached at Saint John’s Church where she prayed over her congregants of goatings: “Let the Lord show you the queerness of the Trinity in ways that you had not felt welcome to before,” as well as offering a prayer of supplication that they embrace “queer parenting.” We further revealed the extent of her wickedly divergent beliefs that her co-hosts all knew about, but did nothing.

Almost immediately after we shared the story her church purged all their sermons from her and Higgins went silent on social media. Eventually, she stopped showing up at the Truth’s Table, without explanation. Previous to that post, we told her co-host several times before that Higgins was a theological hot mess, but it was only after our article came out and the avalanche of the negative press came out that they were forced to cut ties with her.

Well, they have finally released a statement, explaining on Instagram that she is leaving them, despite being featured prominently on the cover of their new book they are still promoting.

Michelle will be departing from Truth’s Table to continue her movement and ministry work in St. Louis. We, Ekemini and Christina, appreciate Michelle’s work and the valuable contributions she has made over the years to make Truth’s Table what it is today and we wish Michelle much success in her next chapter.

Our book, Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation, is scheduled for release in April 2022. This book will serve as the capstone of Truth’s Table collective work as a trio. We are grateful that you will continue to hear Michelle’s voice as we promote this project during Season Six of Truth’s Table.

…Please join us in praying that God would bless Michelle and finish the good work He started in her.”

There is no mention of why she left or any sort of public statement issued on her theology. There was never any public rebuke for anything she said. Despite the movement and ministry doing in St, Louis with her church is teaching Black Liberation Theology and organizing pro-LGBTQ and abortion rallies to support Planned Parenthood, there is no warning to the public or to their supporters. As far as anyone can see, she is leaving on good terms, as a sister in Christ, for which they pray is blessed by the Lord in her endeavors.

This is cowardly and dangerous behavior from Uwan and Edmondson. This is a refusal to call out of one their own and the heresy and blasphemy she is openly espousing, silently sweeping her under the rug and washing their hands without so much even a whisper to the saints. They’re releasing a wolf that they raised since it was a cub into the henhouse, and not telling anyone she’s out for blood.


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Pastrix Michelle Higgins Instructs Congregants to Reveal Personal Pronouns Before They Can Speak at Pulpit

Michelle Higgins, the senior “pastrix” of Saint John’s Church (United Church of Christ) continues to leave us vexed but unsurprised at the blasphemously progressive way she’s running her new church goat pen, this time with a series of proverbial open-handed slaps to the face of Jesus. This is being done while flying David Hammons’ Pan-African Flag, whose colors according to Black Art in America “are representative, as the red is for the blood, the black is for the people, and the green is for the natural wealth of the Motherland, Africa,” in the background.

A Prophet Gets Misgendered?

To kick things off, Higgins insists on using a unique pronunciation for the prophet Joel, proffering in her opening salvo:

My name is Michelle, I’m the pastor here. And I want to just give us some kind of grounding and opportunity for us to join together in the Word of God. So if you have your Bible app, if you have a Bible in front of you, we’re going to go to the book of Joelle, the prophet Joelle.

Now some of us just pronounced it ‘Joel.’ And that’s alright too. That’s alright (unintelligeble).  We love you anyway. I’m not trying to shade nobody. If you go to the second chapter, this actually chapters one, verse thirteen. We have an opportunity today, beloved, to lament so many spaces where Faith is the center.”

No word yet if she insists on calling the book of John “The book of Joanna,” but over the course of the scattered, aimless “sermon” she repeatedly calls the prophet “Joelle.” We’ll assume she’s just using some esoteric pronunciation rather than misgendering based on her well-established pro-queer ideology, but you really never know.

Everyone Must Reveal Personal Pronouns When Introducing Themselves in Church

After a brief scripture reading, several people come up to the front to share what the verse meant to them, with Higgins instructing them to give their personal pronouns before they speak. (Apologies for the video quality: the original feed itself was choppy.)

“Morning beloved community. My name is Andrew I use he/him pronouns….”

“Good morning. My name is Elisa. I use the ‘she’ series…”

“Hi, I’m Maggie, I’m she/her pronouns. Yeah, it’s interesting that…”

and the best:

“Good morning. My name is Heidi. she, her, whatever, I don’t know. I don’t do the pronoun things. I’m too old for that. My name is Heidi. (Editor’s Note: Hahahahahaha…)

Offer Prayers and/ Or “Positive vibes”

Pastrix Higgins forgets she is in a Christian church rather than at a festival for bygone hippies and pagans, telling the congregants:

If there are any prayer requests that people want to quickly shout out and I’ll say them from the microphone. I’ll give you all items to pray over. Or if you are up the tradition of sending positive vibes, hopes and wishes for well-being you are welcome to do that as well.

More Queer Trinity Talk

Higgins reiterates her belief that the Trinity is queer:

We believe that the body of Jesus is that forever and ever, but we believe that God is three persons. Now I invite you to email me and talk to me about my trinitarianism. Let me assure you that I’m a little more ‘the Trinity is kind of queer,’ more so ‘the Trinity will strip you negative, hang you upside down unless you believe exactly what I believe.’

Again, this woman is one-third of the podcasting trio The Truth’s Table that is lauded and platformed as an orthodox, excellent resource for faithful Christians. Higgins shares the mic with co-hosts Christina Edmondson (wife of Mika Edmondson, whose always ragging on the SBC) and Ekimini Uwan. They know exactly who she is. They know how deep the rabbit role of blasphemy goes, and all parties affirm her as a sister in Christ.

This should naturally lead you to ask: can you trust the parties that hold up her?

You all know what we think. Or at least you should by now…

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Witness BBC’s Jemar Tisby Hired by Ibram X. Kendi to be His New ‘Assistant Director of Narrative and Advocacy’

In a move that leaves us utterly and completely unsurprised, Ibram X. Kendi, author of the NYT best seller How to be an Anti-racist and one of the most media-celebrated and rabidly progressive thinkers today, announced that he brought on none other than Jemar Tisby to be the Assistant Director of Narrative and Advocacy at the Center for Antiracist Research, based out of Boston University.

Founded by Kendi, the CAR’s mission is “to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice. We foster exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives. We are working toward building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all.”

Kendi is perhaps best known for advancing the notion that it is not enough for a person to not be racist, but they must be actively “anti-racism.”

Anti-racism is this is the act of actively identifying and opposing the systemic racism that the entire country is drenched in. By openly calling it out at every opportunity, one is taking steps to eliminate racism at the individual, institutional, and structural levels. Because everything is racist, it makes insisting that one is not a racist such a dangerous thing. From his ideology, saying “I’m not racist” allows people to avoid participating in “anti-racism” and the tearing down of those institutions.

Kendi also says that the first step of being an anti-racist is for white people to admit they’re racist, “because the very heartbeat of racism is denial.” When white people say they’re not racist, not only are they refusing to be anti-racists, but they’re sharing the same words that Jim Crow segregationists and slave owners used. To deny racism is racism itself.

Lovely.

As for Jemar – well, he founded the Witness Black Christian Collective in 2012 and is best known for writing the book The Color of Compromise (which unsurprisingly is compromised theologically).

We would suggest that this organization has no credibility to speak on the biblical, scriptural, and theological understanding and application of racism to the church. They have no clue what constitutes issues of what mercy and justice are so long as they continue to, platform, and promote so many unbiblical, unscriptural, and untheological writers and contributors, many of who are openly pro-choice, for example and make reparations to black people a part of the gospel message. Despite this, he has a long list of fans and endorsers, including Beth Moore, Ligon Duncan, Matthew Hall at SBTS, etc.

Truly, a match made in hell.

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Beth Moore is up to Some No Good, Very Bad, LGBT-Affirming Pastrixy Stuff

Beth Moore has been following the debate on the dailies in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over whether or not a woman can be called “Pastor” after news broke that the SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) helped plant a church with a lead pastrix who intended to lead as that very thing. This led Moore to weigh in with her usually couched and vague language about the roles and titles that ladies can and should assume within her denomination.

Moore is an egalitarian who alternates between sneaky and veiled advocacy for women preachers all the while publicly claiming the squishiest form soft-complementarianism possible, an example which can be found here.

In fact, recently she lauded another pastrix as a woman of faith who is the insightful and brilliant bee’s knees, none other than LGBT-affirming, openly pro-choice, Episcopalian priestess Ally Henny, who is also Vice President of Jemar Tisby’s Witness BBC.

Henny, who makes sure her pronouns (she/her) are known in her bio, was recently featured in a sermon by @wokepreachertv that abused the scriptures so much, we had to file a proverbial police report after listening to it.

Moore’s point is clear though. If you’re a woman, don’t wait for men to tell you that you can’t be a preacher or pastor. Follow Jesus, call yourself whatever you’d like, and “you do you.”



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Jemar Tisby ‘Quick-as-a-Flash’ Scripture Twist Shows Woke Agenda

Jemar Tisby, founder of the Witness Black Christian Collective (previously called Reformed African American Network or RAAN) which is an allegedly Christian organization created to “fight injustice” all the while promoting an openly pro-choice, pro LGBT radical to the role of VP, delivered a gospel presentation at Wheaton College back in late 2019.

Tibsy, perhaps best known for writing the theologically compromised book The Color of Compromise, gives us a primer on how woke teachers influence by Critical Race Theory can quickly twist scripture and insert unbiblical ideas even into a two-minute gospel presentation, so the point that if you’re not paying attention, you’ll blink and you’ll miss it.

Earlier when I was defining the prophetic voice I mentioned a kind of prophecy called a ‘prophecy of deliverance.’ I talked about Genesis 3:15, the offspring of the woman crushing satan under his heel, and I said ‘test the spirits’ and the way to test a forthtelling spirit is to see if it came true, well brothers and sisters that prophecy of deliverance prophesied all the way back in Genesis 3:15 came true.

It came true when Jesus Christ, the Son of God, took on flesh and became a person and entered into our experience so that he could identify with us and express solidarity with us!

Jesus Christ announced his public ministry by describing his role as a prophetic forthteller. He said that he was anointed by God the Father to proclaim good news to the poor, liberty to the captives, the recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

That prophecy came true, and because it came true, you now who believe in Jesus enter into that prophetic role of forthtelling the truth, even the truth about racism and white supremacy.

And on the cross, Jesus Christ tells those who have been bent low because of oppression: you can stand up straight. And he tells those who have bought into the myth of whiteness and superiority that you, too, are in need of a savior. If you have repented and believed this morning, then despise not the prophetic voice of the black experience. Amen and amen.”

That’s all it takes. A quick flick of the wrist. A couple of words added in to change the meaning.

It doesn’t take much.

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Jemar Tisby’s Black Christian Collective Promotes Pro-Choice Ally Henny to Vice-President

Jemar Tisby’s Witness Black Christian Collective (WitnessBCC) has made major structural changes to its organization, elevating several key members into new roles such as Tyler Burns to President and and promoting openly pro-choice advocate Ally Henny to Vice-President.



The Witness BCC was founded by Jemar Tisby in 2012, which at that point was called the Reformed African American Network or RAAN. Tisby, perhaps best known for writing the book The Color of Compromise (which unsurprisingly is compromised theologically) has left his position and will serve as founder of The Witness Incorporated, a 501c3 organization that is the parent company for The Witness Foundation (A newish venture that gives certain black folk $50,000 a year to train and raise them into leaders) and The Witness Black Christian Collective.

Despite the new structure, what has remained unchanged is the fact that this organization has no credibility to speak on the biblical, scriptural, and theological understanding and application of racism to the church. They have no clue what constitutes issues of mercy and justice are so long as they continue to platform and promote so many unbiblical, unscriptural, and untheological writers and contributors. Chief among them is Ally Henny, now the Veep.

Henny is a regular contributor to The Witness and writes about race, cultural identification, black motherhood, and topics related to the black experience from a faith-based perspective. She is also overtly and unabashedly pro-choice.

She recently tweeted about how black people should join the Episcopal (US Anglican) church. When pressed on why any Christian should do that, given the denomination’s stance on abortion and homosexuality (they are openly and enthusiastically in favor of both) she responded:

I believe that all people should be welcome to worship and serve in the church regardless of their identity….

I actually considered joining the “other” Anglican denomination here in the US, but I decided against it. My nephew came out as trans at the same time I was taking steps to enter into discernment. I realized that I could not be ordained somewhere he could not be his full self…

There are disagreements within the Anglican Communion on this issue. As a new Anglican, my hope is that we would err on the side of love and not pronounce anathemas against one another because we disagree.”

She’s not the only one working or associated with the Witness BCC who has dubious views on abortion, if not also flat out pro-choice. Michelle Higgins routinely tweets out support for Planned Parenthood, the apex predator of the baby-killing world, and Ekimini Uwan doesn’t want to abolish Roe v. Wade, but rather wants it to be the law of the land.

In the Witness BCC, refusing to swallow Critical Race Theory’s view on “anti-racism” will get you kicked out, but being for the killing of babies in the womb as a human right will get you promoted. So spare us Jemar Tisby when you go on podcasts and talk about mercy, and justice, and loving your neighbors, and hatred for the oppressed. Your people support baby-killing, dude. We’re not buying it for a second.