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.
