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NYC has a "vaccine referral bonus program" for churches? "For each person that receives their first vaccine at a city-run site, the organization will be awarded $100 in addition to the recipient receiving $100. Please be sure to mention Mount Moriah referred you." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ielSEyxnapo

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made an appearance Sunday, December 19, 2021 at the Los Angeles church "Macedonia LA." Senior Pastor Shane B. Scott introduced Waters as "our leader" before handing the pulpit over to her, where she shamed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for not supporting the "Build Back Better" bill and gave a point-by-point sales pitch for the legislation. Then, Waters gave Pastor Scott a $5,000 check on stage, where he attributed her gift to God repaying him for a donation to her re-election campaign. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OsBmfxvhM

h/t Reformation Charlotte https://reformationcharlotte.org/2021/12/17/church-hosts-drag-queen-prayer-time-for-children-on-sunday-morning/ "This is everybody's first time they've ever seen a drag queen? Well, hello. I am also a boy most of the time when I'm here, but today I [tosses hair] am beautiful today."

Pastor and author Mark Sayers of the Melbourne, Australia-area Red Church spreads misinformation about coronavirus vaccines in this November interview with Preston Sprinkle, asserting without evidence that fewer people are dying from these inoculations than from common household medications like Tylenol and foods like peanut butter. —TRANSCRIPT— PRESTON SPRINKLE: I've heard someone say that people are dying from the vaccine. Is that, i've heard that from a few different people. I've never seen studies or anything, but is that, has there been cases of that? MARK SAYERS: There have, some people have passed away, but it's your one in millions, just as people pass away from Tylenol at higher numbers. So, there are people who have passed away from peanut butter. And so there's a tiny, tiny percentage, some of that's been overplayed. But the amount, the death rate, compared to the, to the, to the actual, you know, that's, it's, it's utterly incomparable. So there's, there's chances in a million, but you got more chance. There's a great graphic someone did here of, you know, basically going to get your shot. And, you know, you are thousands of times more likely to fall out of bed and die that morning on your way to the shot and get hit by lightning and get struck by a falling plane uh than you were to die with the vaccine. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5_hSgllKr4

Pastor and author Mark Sayers of the Melbourne, Australia-area Red Church spreads misinformation about coronavirus vaccines in this November interview with Preston Sprinkle, asserting without evidence that universal inoculation will stop infections, transmission, and genetic variation of COVID-19 in human populations. —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS— MARK SAYERS: A lot of our political understanding comes from a western political tradition, which felt that it had conquered nature. So once conquering nature, it then worked on the problems of human nature...We work on things like human freedom, equality. These are the problems of human nature. ... Where the pandemic is a portal into the next world is that, the environment too, is that we have now the return of nature, and nature does not care less about your human freedom. So we're moving back into what humans have struggled with throughout history, which is the return of nature. ... There's different things in a virus. There's transmissibility, there's severity, and then there's vaccine escape. Delta is maybe a little bit severe, we're not more sure. It could be the same, but it was more transmissible. The nightmare scenario is we get a more transmissible, a more deadly, and a vaccine escape, and there is a significant chance of that happening. So when you've got a large group of unvaccinated people, so, things like smallpox and so on, we vaccinated that sort of almost out of existence, right? Polio and stuff like this, because the world was slowly vaccinated, and that disappears. So part of the argument of "you do your thing, I'll do mine," that's an argument that's not coming from epidemiology. That's coming from people looking at a political framework of "we'll deal with this as a problem of human nature. That's your belief, that's mine. But what we're entering into now is this world where reality is returning in the form of nature where there's consequential decisions that we just can't agree to disagree on. ... PRESTON SPRINKLE: If, let's just snap our fingers and say the whole world's vaccinated tomorrow, then does that mean COVID would pretty much fizzle out really shortly? SAYERS: Yeah. So it's got nowhere to go. There is always the slight danger that it could go into an animal reservoir, and, this is a bizarre thing. They did testing on deer in Michigan recently, and deers [sic] are raging with coronavirus. So it is jumping into animal reservoirs, but it would pretty much sort of disappear in the world if everyone's vaccinated. SPRINKLE: What about when they get natural immunity? Like, they get it, they live through it, they have T-cell immunity. Is that the same as being vaccinated in terms of what we're talking about here, of contracting it and spreading it? SAYERS: There is elements. The problem we have with natural immunity is that it wavers. So there are people who are getting COVID more than once, and it's different on different individuals. ... ALSO SAYERS: What we know is that the vaccine is probably going to have boosters in six months, because they do weigh in with efficacy, um, that, um, you, um, just as, you know, there's a new flu jab every year, um, or flu shot. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5_hSgllKr4

VACCINE DISCOURSE DEVOLVING: Rev. Dr. Arthur L. Brown, of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Harrisburg, PA, says all 3 U.S. COVID vaccines have been approved for kids 5+ (FACT CHECK: nope), tells congregants to withhold Thanksgiving dinner/Xmas gifts until their grandkids get the shot. "Hit 'em where it hurts." Then proceeds to mock people who are facing vaccine mandates and the loss of their livelihoods. "That's what the healthcare systems are doing. You don't get vaccinated, you don't have a job. Hit 'em where it hurts. Somehow, some folk in health care decided they had a change of mind when they realized that they might have to have a change of employment. All of a sudden now, 'You know what? I think I'm gonna get that vaccine.' So listen. Sometimes we got to do we got to do to help folk to see the light." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHLcAYKev8I

Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, lauds Francis Collins, then the Director of the National Institutes Of Health (NIH), during this November 2020 online chat for the HHS Partnership Center. Source videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-WMXld0rk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je2FDmsrxiA https://twitter.com/wef/status/1422150187749883905 Source articles: https://thenewamerican.com/rutgers-virus-expert-fauci-collins-untruthful-about-funding-gain-of-function-research-new-docs-disclose-more-grants-to-wuhan-lab/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-life-groups-call-for-removal-of-nih-chief-over-fetal-tissue-research/ https://freebeacon.com/policy/taxpayer-fund-aborted-babies-research/ Where to find WPC around the web: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Reverend Tracy Lauersen, Rector of St Paul’s Warragul, an Anglican church in Victoria, Australia, carefully weighs the pros and cons of restricting citizens' movement (and ultimately their worship) via government-mandated vaccine passports, during a worship service on September 26, 2021. --TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS-- Should we accept further restrictions on who can come to church when we are able to reopen our services?...If it is needed for our good, then we can consider it. ... If 80% of our people are double vaccinated, the question, then, is: do those who are not vaccinated, do they still pose a threat, or their liberties, to be constrained, is there is there a valid reason for that? Well, the science suggests yes there is. ... I guess we won't actually know how necessary it is for the good of all to constrain in this way, until we know what the virus case numbers will be when we get to 80% double vaccinated. And that is probably why the government also is holding back from telling us whether this is going to happen or not. They are waiting to see, as well. And they're not waiting because they're indecisive but because they don't want to constrain our rights. They don't want to constrain our freedoms unless it's necessary for our good. They are waiting for our benefit. But as we look at other nations just nearby, as we look at Singapore, where they do have 80% of their people double vaccinated, they are now having to reintroduce restrictions. And they've introduced something along the lines of vaccine passports. There therefore does seem to be an inevitable need for the government to continue to constrain us in various ways, including, potentially, these vaccine passports. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wApkK1aPsiY Where to find WPC around the web: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

New York Governor Kathy Hochul spoke at New York City's Christian Cultural Center Sunday, September 26, and urged members of the audience to act as her "apostles" to New Yorkers "who aren't listening to God and what God wants" by declining coronavirus inoculations. --TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHT-- We are not through this pandemic. I wished we were, but I prayed a lot to God during this time. And you know what? God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers, he made them come up with a vaccine. That is from God to us. And we must say, "Thank you, God. Thank you." And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time to to say "I'm vaccinated." All of you. Yes, I know you're vaccinated. You're the smart ones. But, you know, there's people out there who aren't listening to God and what God wants. You know this. You know who they are. I need you to be my apostles. I need you to go out and talk about it and say: "We owe this to each other." We love each other. Jesus taught us to love one another. And how do you show that love but to care about each other enough to say, "Please get vaccinated, because I love you. I want you to live." I want our kids to be safe when they're in schools. I want you to be safe when you go to a doctor's office or a hospital and are treated by somebody. You don't want to get the virus from them. You're already sick, or you wouldn't be there. We have to solve this, my friends. I need every one of you. I need you to let them know that this is how we can fight this pandemic, come back to normal, and then start talking about the real issues that we have to: fighting systemic racial injustice. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9pSH93P0Q0 Where to find WPC around the web: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

A supercut of Woke Preacher Clips catching stealthy (and sometimes not-so-stealthy) edits to the actual text of the Bible. Featuring: -Charlie Dates, Progressive Baptist Church Chicago -Danielle Strickland, World Vision's "Right Side Up" Podcast -Rasool Berry, Our Daily Bread's "Where Ya From?" and "In Pursuit Of Jesus" -Timothy Gombis, Cornerstone University -Léonce Crump, Renovation Church Where to find and support WPC: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Rev. Dr. William E. Flippin, Sr., pastor of Atlanta's Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church, urges his congregation to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 at the church's first in-person service of 2021. Flippin has reportedly required that all people attending services provide evidence of a coronavirus vaccination, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. --TRANSCRIPT-- I want to just beg, please, with these younger people, particularly, to please get the vaccine. I guess they don't listen to the news. The news says that over 90 percent of hospitalizations are persons who have not been vaccined. It didn't say just young folk, it didn't say white folk. I was alarmed this week when Deacon Henderson sent me a little flyer, I don't know if Patrick has it, that 56 percent of African-Americans in the nation have been vaccinated. I'm just shocked. I thought it would be much higher than that. So, play this for your children who won't get the vaccine. If you would get it, no more than for your mother, your grandmother, your grandparents, your elderly relatives, do it for them. Somebody say "amen," please. Do it for them. Amen. I have lived long enough to get the measles shot, the flu shot, the shingles shot, the pneumonia shot, this shot and that shot, and I ain't dead. Say amen. And that I told my wife, Deacon Bell, said if something's wrong with the vaccine, I'd rather not know I'm gonna die this year. I got maybe 10, 12 years on it. Somebody say, come on y'all, talk to me. Have some sense. Praise the Lord. We just have to trust that, if you will. We are so serious about this that next week, when we have our community day, giving out bookbags and what have you, we are prayerful that we will have a truck, a mobile clinic here, for anybody to get their vaccines. Say amen. We're gonna canvass the neighborhood, I want people to stand out with boards on the interstate saying, "Get your vaccine." Say amen. So please, if you have some crazy children like I do, trick 'em and say you need a ride to church. And once you're here, you say, "Now, you're going in there. Do you hear me?" Amen. Tell 'em there's something there for 'em. Praise the Lord. Source video: https://www.facebook.com/TheGroveATL7/videos/2396082490524555 Where to find and support WPC: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Former NFL star and "Bachelor" stand-in host Emmanuel Acho downplays fears of "cancel culture" and asserts that white men, in general, have not been "held accountable for their actions" throughout American history. And it only gets worse once he start defining what he means by "held accountable." This clip is from a July 2021 appearance on Jen Hatmaker's "For The Love" podcast. —TRANSCRIPT— JEN HATMAKER: How do we begin to dismantle second-degree racism? [Note: This cut in the video is inherent to the original upload] How do we work together here? Because it's exhausting to be on the receiving end of miicroaggressions all day every day, I can only imagine. I just can only imagine it just feels like, "God, can I just go to bed?" And so how do you see us collectively beginning to tear down those walls? EMMANUEL ACHO: I'll say to you and everyone listening the same thing I said to Oprah. Denial. Spelled d-e-n-i-a-l. "Don't even know I am lying." JH: Ah. Well, see, that's hard. EA: So you can't fix a problem, Jen, that you don't know exists. So how do we fix this issue? Well, first we have to acknowledge the existence of it. I don't necessarily fault the individual white person. I fault the country. For example, I recently hosted The Bachelor: After The Final Rose. The reason they asked me to host was because the black gentleman, the first black Bachelor, he selected a white woman, Rachel Kirkconnell, who had pictures surface of her on an antebellum plantation party back in college. I'll be real. I've said it privately, I've said it publicly, I'll say it again. I don't fault Rachel. I fault the country, that Rachel doesn't realize how ignorant and insensitive that was. I fault the sorority, not one individual. There's a construct that she was a part of that was like, "You know what? This isn't a bad idea to go to an antebellum plantation." For those of you all listening, "antebellum" in Latin translates to "before the war." The war in question: the Civil War that freed the slaves, so an antebellum plantation is literally notating a plantation that was in existence before slaves were free, and thus slaves would have been on said plantation. I fault the country for not holding our white brothers and sisters accountable of their insensitivity. I'm going to pivot to a place that may make some people uncomfortable. Jen, you know we currently live in this quote-unquote "cancel culture. And people are, "Oh my God," they're up in arms. "Cancel culture! How the hell, what's going on?" We have to understand that we're now just being held accountable, and by we, I really mean white men. Women have been held accountable. There have been women's suffrage movements. 1920s, look no further. Where women have been told how to dress. Women have been told what to say. Women have been held in check if they dress a certain way or say a certain thing. Black people, we already know they've been held accountable. I dare a black person in the 1940s or '50s to sit on the front of a bus. Held accountable. So black people have held been held accountable for their actions, women have been held accountable for their actions. But white men have never really been held accountable for their actions in our country, speaking generally, if I may. The issue at hand is that collectively, as a society, we haven't done a good enough job holding each other accountable. Yesterday, the day before we're currently recording this, marked a hundred years since the Tulsa race riots, the Tulsa race massacre. You're nodding your head in agreement, so I'm assuming you know what I am talking about. I did not know what I was talking about prior to two years ago, because I never learned that at my astute, genius private school. I went to the number one school in Texas. Look it up. Not my opinion. We're literally ranked the number one school in Texas. And I did not know what the Tulsa race riot was. For those listening who don't know what it is, Tulsa race riot. Black Wall Street eviscerated. Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, because a black man tripped on an elevator, touched a white woman. White woman made accusations, et cetera. So I bring that all full circle, Jen, to simply say we as a country have to do a better job of understanding the real issues. Even my white people, my white brothers that are trying to be allies, do you know what you're being an ally to and for? You want to be a part of the good, but do you know how? That's really the dilemma at hand. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90lnLjQUIs Where to find and support WPC: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Jennifer Toledo, a founding pastor of Los Angeles megachurch Expression 58, cites the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset" positively and unironically during an April 2021 sermon, titled "The Great Reset." —TRANSCRIPT— I believe God wants to infuse us, church. He wants to infuse you with hope of your future, with passion. I believe that God has come to truly reset us in this season, expression. This is the invitation. Jesus is on the shore beckoning us. He's got breakfast for you, and he is ready to reset you in every area of your life. You know, I've heard it said that crisis is the great accelerator. Crisis is the great accelerator. It's either going to accelerate fear or faith, right? It's going to accelerate change or destruction. Crisis is the great accelerator. It invites us into the Divine Reset. You know, maybe this past season has felt like the enemy has just been working overtime to unleash some things in our culture, in society, in the world, in your life, in your family, in your business, whatever it is, right? But we remember that whatever the enemy means for evil, God turns for our good. That's who our God is. Our God turns for our good. You know, Time Magazine, at the end of last year, recently put out a cover called The Great Reset, which is really interesting. And the subtitle was "The world is under construction." And it said the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a unique opportunity to think about the kind of future we want. And then Time partnered with the World Economic Forum to ask leading thinkers to share ideas for how to transform the way we live and work. And what's interesting is the whole article that Time put out is based on this concept, this idea of: never waste a crisis. Never waste a crisis, because crisis provides a unique opportunity for a total reset. Wow. I feel like that's a prophetic word for us. Don't waste a crisis, because the invitation at hand is a total reset. What is the world you want to live in? What does that look like? Let's build it. And I think that is the invitation at hand. Let's truly build what God wants us to build in this season, right? The Divine Reset. You know what happened with Peter here. You know, this beautiful, passionate moment where he jumps in, he swims to Jesus, and Jesus leads him in this reset. And we look at the life of Peter, and it truly changed everything for Peter. Peter would live passionately and wholeheartedly in everything God had called him to to live in. He walked it out. That reset changed everything. And I'd like to suggest to you that Jesus is offering you, just like he did Peter, a giant reset in your life this spring. In every area of your life, right? In your emotional life, in your finances, in your health, in your family, in your spiritual life, in your faith. I believe God wants to reset us. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyg_qWRs5-s Where to find and support WPC: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Rev. James T. Meeks, Senior Pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago and former Illinois State Senator, demands 100 years of free education, child care, health care, and guaranteed employment for black Americans in this July 2020 message, "A Biblical Case For Reparations." —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS— Our country knows reparations. In 1991, we passed the Japanese Recovery Act...We relocated Japanese. They were not enslaved, they were not raped, they were not castrated, they were not murdered. Yet for four years of inconvenience, we paid the Japanese. ... Every year, the United States, right now, we put $5 million in our budget for Holocaust survivors. Right on. I ain't against Holocaust survivors. They survived a whole lot. But what about those of us who had to survive the Negro Holocaust? What about those of us who are still in the middle of the Holocaust? Don't we deserve something? ... Let me get ready to close. What do we want? We want the American government to give restitution to the descendants of the people who built America. We want free college for every black kid for the next hundred years. That's the action step. We want a job for every black person in America for the next hundred years. And the government can do it. We want child care for every parent who's African-American for the next hundred years. We want free health care for every black American for the next hundred years. Well, pastor, ain't that gonna take a long time? Ain't that gonna take a long time? The Congress came together and in two weeks passed a $2.2 trillion stimulus package. If the will is there, if they desire to do it, they can. So, for everybody who wanna come on and, "Pastor Meeks, what can I do? What can we do?" Everybody who wanna march with Black Lives Matter, lemme close with another Bible scripture. Lemme close, lest you think that I'm biblically illiterate and I don't know my Bible. Let's close with the Bible. Luke chapter 18. Luke chapter 19, verse 8. This is Jesus and Zacchaeus. "And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto him: Lord, behold, half my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." If I took it. If I egreged him. If I inconvenienced him. If you can systematically show that it's my fault, Zacchaeus said it is my obligation to restore him fourfold. Listen to what Jesus said. "Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, for as much as he is also a son of Abraham." I'll know that you're saved when you start talking about reparations. I'll know that you're saved when you start saying and acknowledging that negro people should be paid back. I will know that salvation has come to your house when you admit it is wrong to enslave a group of people and then turn them loose without giving them anything. So, while other people are getting reparations, while Jews are getting reparations, while Indians are starting to get reparations (I'm happy for you, Indians. I ain't against you. I'm happy for you), all we get is ghettoes and slums and bad schools. And you're wondering why we are turning on each other like savages and shooting each other and killing each other. Because we are denied opportunities. And black kids don't see a future. And they don't see a hope. Let's give them a future. Let's give them college. Let's give them health care. Let's give them child care. Let's give them hope. If black lives matter, if you really got it, if you really got it, then government, come on! Turn around and be sensitive and give to black people what black people deserve! Repair the damages! Repair the damages! Repair the damages! Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXDzmH91s1s Where to find and support WPC: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Dr. Wayne Koch, a professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, embarks on a metaphor about COVID-19 vaccines and the Holy Spirit during a Sunday morning call to worship at Columbia Presbyterian Church, a PCA congregation in Columbia, Maryland. —TRANSCRIPT— Are you ready for this morning's opening metaphor? Prof Koch is up here, so we're gonna get a metaphor this morning. It takes a minute. Bear with me. I was thinking about it this morning. We're so happy to be here and unmasked. All we with unveiled faces, right? And to be together. And we're watching the Delta variant and all that stuff and worrying a little bit about whether we're gonna be able to keep this freedom to meet together this week. And we're here together and able to be together because of a vaccine, largely, right? That we've been vaccinated. And that is our protection, our assurance. So here's the metaphor. We actually are here longing for something much more than just getting back to life the way that we remember it. Being able to go on vacation, as some of our members have done, or go to a restaurant. And we have a much bigger problem, don't we, than the COVID, coronavirus. Our problem is how can we come into the presence of the God who made us who we have sinned against, who we've disappointed? And if you look at the bulletin verse [1 John 4:17], you see the metaphor for the vaccine. We have a much better solution that allows us to be together, and that is the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. As you look to your right and to your left and you see the person sitting next to you, we hope that that person is vaccinated, but we also hope that they have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them, as we have hope that the Holy Spirit dwells in us. And by that Spirit, his love is perfected within us, so that we have confidence in the day of judgment to draw nigh. And that's what we've come to do. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdZRsB89gY Where to find and support WPC: https://linktr.ee/wokepreacherclips

Rachel Gilson, author of "Born Again This Way," links the use of transgender non-Christians' preferred pronouns to issues of conscience, a la 1 Corinthians 8, in this Q+A for the Gospel Coalition. —TRANSCRIPT— I think the question of preferred pronouns...really can come down to a question of conscience. So if you've done a quiet time recently in the weak brother/strong brother passages of scripture, Paul has a category for the reality that some Christians are going to come to issues and fall in different spots. And one of the most important questions there is how are we going to relate to each other when we fall in different spots? So, on the one hand, some of us would feel incredibly compromised using a transgender person's preferred name or pronouns, because it feels like we're complicit in a lie. It feels like we're breaking the ninth commandment, right? Like we're bearing false witness about a neighbor, and we need to take that really, really seriously. It is never safe to go to a place that your faith doesn't allow you to go against your conscience. And if that is your position, you have to recognize that when you are interacting with a transgender person, your inability to use their preferred name or pronoun could actually be received as very offensive by them or deeply hurtful by them. And so I would encourage people in that category to think, "Okay, well, my truth is clear. How can I communicate clearly the grace of Christ here? How can I go above and beyond to show love, knowing that my posture on pronouns is going to be tricky for the person I'm talking with?" Others of us have no problem at all using preferred names and pronouns. We're like, "Yes! This is a way of showing love! I'm ready to do this." And in that case, your conversation partner is probably easily going to feel loved and accepted by you. So then I would challenge you, since you have access to the heart of your friend, what would it mean for you to use that access to have truthful conversations either about who Christ is, maybe, if you feel competent about the nature of the body, even just beginning conversations of if your friend has thought about how God relates to these questions in their lives. But no matter where we come down, I want us to be able to relate to each other with honor and respect, because the church has not had to answer these questions before, and we we need to have grace with each other, right? We know that God loves desperately the transgender people in our lives, and so we need to be thinking as a community: how can we expose them to the love that we have received ourselves? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkaPSjxE5AE h/t Protestia: https://protestia.com/2021/05/27/tgc-author-advocates-for-using-trans-personal-pronouns-suggests-not-using-them-makes-one-a-weaker-brother/ WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://gab.com/wokepreacherclips

Dr. J. Ligon Dunan III, Chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, suggests black Christians are exercising reasonable discernment, not prejudice, if they project the horrors of Jim Crow mistreatment onto him personally because of his skin color, during an appearance on The Gospel Coalition's "As In Heaven" podcast. PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: "Can you imagine the gospel impact if Bible-believing Protestants (Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians) had said of their Bible-believing Christian brothers and sisters in Baptist churches and elsewhere: ‘you’re not gonna kill our brothers and sisters in Christ. You’re not gonna defraud our brothers and sisters in Christ. You’re not going to wrongfully imprison our brothers and sisters in Christ. You’re not going to mistreat our brothers and sisters.’ Can you imagine the gospel impact of that? And it's gonna take us 100 years to overcome the trust issues that have come out of that. I tell people: my very best black friends have trouble trusting me, for really good reasons. Because people like me have been doing awful things to them and to their families for four centuries. It's gonna take a while before the trust issues that exist between otherwise good friends in Christ are gonna be addressed. We've got generational issues here." Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESF9Ijsha8 WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://www.gab.com/wokepreacherclips

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris cites the Holy Bible while encouraging Americans to receive a vaccine for COVID-19 during a July 2021 event in Detroit, Michigan. --TRANSCRIPT-- KAMALA HARRIS: If you have not yet been vaccinated, you know, some people said, "I'mma wait. I want to wait and see how this all turns out, how everybody else is doing with it." Right? "So I'mma give it six months." It's July. [laughs] It's time. It's time. So it is time, and it is time to roll up your sleeves and get the shot. And if you already have, find someone who hasn't and help them. And talk to them as we are having this conversation now. Borne out of love, borne out of concern, and borne out of knowledge, again, that it will save lives. You know, a couple weeks ago, I was down in Atlanta at Ebenezer Baptist Church. And it was good to be back there. And the church, of course, you all know this is the church where Dr. King preached. Until the day he died. And today it is a place of worship. But as most places of worship, also a place of healing. It is a vaccination site. Then and now, a place of healing. And when I was there, I talked with a bunch of folks. And in particular, I met with a bunch of folks who had just been vaccinated. And the healthcare workers who administered the vaccines. And I said then what I will repeat today. I do believe that the act of getting vaccinated is the very essence, the very essence of what the Bible tells us when it says "love thy neighbor." Right? Because what we know is, one can ask, well, who is one's neighbor? Is it the person who lives to my left, lives to my right? I know them. May borrow a cup of sugar. Right? But what we know it means when we talk about "love thy neighbor" is that, yes, it may be the person next door, and it may be the man on the side of the road, and it may be a perfect stranger. And in the face of that stranger, you see a friend. That's what this is about. And so by getting vaccinated, you are loving your neighbor. [SEVERAL MINUTES EARLIER] We are bringing the facts, the facts, not misinformation, the facts, directly to the people. And that's a big deal, as you all know. We got to get the facts out, because sadly, there's a lot of misinformation. So let's know what it is and let's talk to our neighbors and our friends and say, "Here, let me tell you about the facts." Okay? The facts, one. And two, bringing the vaccine directly to the people, okay? So we have volunteers who are going door to door to give people information about the vaccines. Why? Because we shouldn't require that people knock on our door to find out what's going on. Let's take it to the streets! Take it to the people. That's what we're talking about doing. Knock on those doors. "Hello, neighbor." Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr4eR2hkChU WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://www.gab.com/wokepreacherclips

Ed Stetzer, Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College, speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in May 2021 about conspiracy theories such as QAnon in a webinar titled "Disinformation and Faith Communities." When asked about "deradicalization" of U.S. Christians, Stetzer straw-mans believers who prefer the sovereignty of their home nations to global governance, accusing them of not desiring their faith to be seen in all cultures a la Revelation 7:9. —TRANSCRIPT— IRINA FASKIANOS: Okay. I’m going to take the next question from Palwasha Kakar, who is at the United States Institute of Peace. “I’m interested in hearing more about Pastor Ed’s work with Evangelical pastors, how do you help them identify and work on deradicalization? Do you build on the international CVE, countering violent extremism, work in this area? Or how does it differ in your understanding?” ED STETZER: First, we don’t call it deradicalization. First thing, but because nobody sees themselves as that. But I get exactly what you’re saying and appreciate the work of deradicalization. The language I used at the beginning, and the way, because I’ve written a lot to try to persuade Evangelicals on some of these issues. And I actually have, and I know it’s very easy for us to sit back and say, “oh, those QAnoners,” well, I actually have friends in the, who are self-identified QAnoners, in the Evangelical community, who actually text me when I’m being discussed on QAnon message boards. And they say they defend me on those message boards. But that’s another story for another day. So for me, I try to frame in such a way that people can receive the message. And again, for us that often comes around in terms of discipleship. I talked about this on NPR’s Morning Edition. And the host asked me, and I kind of struggled because it’s like, it’s insider baseball language. I said, so there are things, I explained, that as Christians we want to disciple in, and things that as Christians, we want to disciple out. So what needs to be discipled in, in 2021? Well, it might be seeing yourself as a “world Christian,” seeing that men and women from every tongue, tribe, and nation are, that’s frequent language in the pages of the Scriptures. It might be helping people to see that, and language I often use is that we should not be among the gullible. And I actually would point out, I mean, I do just so we’re clear, I do believe, I bet my whole life on the fact that there was a person who was dead on Friday, and on Sunday was back from the dead, and everything I believe, is framed and shaped around that reality. But I do point out how, as our Christian witnesses impacted the last slide that I didn’t get to, because I went too long in the first session, actually talks about the danger to our Christian witness. I lead the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center. So I care deeply about our Christian witness. And I pointed out somebody who kept posting about this QAnon conspiracy, and this QAnon conspiracy, and this one, and then it came to Easter, and they said, “oh, and Jesus rose from the dead.” And I would just say it’s really hard to persuade a world about a supernatural event called the resurrection, when you’ve posted six other things about bizarre conspiracy theories from pizza, Comet Ping Pong, to Seth Rich, and some of you know these different references, to Wayfair, to whatever else it may be. Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12Q4Qsfid4 Transcript source: https://www.cfr.org/event/disinformation-and-faith-communities WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://www.gab.com/wokepreacherclips

In Session 7 of World Vision's "May We Be One," Dr. Randy Woodley goes beyond saying Christian missionaries mistreated indigenous people with violence and Judaizer-style conformity (which did occur). He also says they wrongly told Native tribes to repent from pagan spirituality. —TRANSCRIPT HIGHLIGHTS— One of the things we need to understand about the theology that was planted in this soil, if you will, by the early settlers is that they did not deem the Native people as having anything spiritually worthy of keeping. ... All the early charters that were sent from England over here...all said that they had a mission to, and they would say, like, "the savages" or "the heathen," things like that. So the assumption was already that God is not here, that God is only present with us, and so what we need to do, then, is teach them our religion and get rid of any sort of cultural baggage or spiritual beliefs. In fact, they would even say, even missionaries would often say that they follow the devil. ... As Native people heard this, they were already very spiritual. They were people who understood that God is powerful, that God is love. That they have personal experiences and even covenants with God. There were ceremonies based on those covenants, there were stories built around those. And in particular, we all have our covenant story of the land that was given to us so long ago. It's sort of like that verse in Acts 17:26-27 that says: From one man he created every ethnos or nation, so that they might reach out and find God. And so those places, God placed our different Native peoples in. And yet the people who came saying, no, they are the ones that are believing in the real God, destroyed our relationship with those places by removing us, by taking away those stories, by taking away those songs and those ceremonies, and the very foundation of what it meant to follow God here already. And so we were very close. And as my adopted [inaudible] mother used to say, when the missionaries came, we were very close to the message. We only didn't understand how much God loved us because we didn't know the story of Jesus. But you look at Acts 17...Paul quotes Epimenides, one of the Greek philosophers' poets. He knows their stuff, right? So this is not a lazy guy. This is a guy who understands the people he's talking to and the worldview and their culture...And Paul just simply said, "Let me explain who this unknown god is." [TEXT CHECK: In vv. 29-31, Paul does not merely "explain" who God is but commands his audience to repent from the false beliefs they hold. “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”] Source videos: https://vimeo.com/526266848 https://vimeo.com/526329183 [Archives] http://web.archive.org/web/20210514142353if_/https://vimeo.com/526329183 http://web.archive.org/web/20210514141838if_/https://vimeo.com/526266848 WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://gab.com/wokepreacherclips

Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock gives a novel interpretation of Isaiah 40:5 during Tuskegee University's 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation. TRANSCRIPT: In God's spiritual geography, there is equity. There is integrity. There is possibility. Then, finally, he says, "all flesh shall see it together." There is inclusivity. "All flesh shall see it together." What a great line. "The glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." Dr. Gray, when I read this line, I used to think that it meant that because God's glory is so great, that because God's glory is so magnificent and so sublime, that when it shows up, doesn't matter who you are or where you are, you cannot help but see it. "All flesh shall see God's glory." That's one way of looking at it. That's all right, but in recent days I've come to see it differently. I think the prophet is actually teaching us *how* to see the glory of God. I think the prophet is not saying to us that God's glory is so grand and so powerful that all flesh will have to see it together. I think the Prophet is telling us that God's glory is so great and so grand and so magnificent that it takes all flesh in order to see it, that the only way to see God's glory is for us to get together. Men can't understand it without women. White sisters and brothers cannot understand it without black sisters and brothers. That's why someone has said, when Patrick Henry said "give me liberty or give me death," I wonder what he would have said if his slave had said, "Me too." That is the continuing project of all flesh, seeing it together. Men thought they understood it until women came up and stood up in the suffrage movement and said, "Me too." Those of us who are of able bodies, we thought we understood it before sisters and brothers who are differently abled stood up through the American Disabilities Act and said, "Me too! Give us access." And that's what I hear our LGBTQ sisters and brothers standing up saying to those of us who are straight and heterosexual, that you don't know what it's like to live in my body, to have my experience. And they're standing up in their own way and saying, "me too," and before you shut them down, recognize that there are some things you can only see from certain perspectives. It takes all flesh to see what God is up to in the world. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egqeZD7R-g WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://www.gab.com/wokepreacherclips/

A supercut of WPC's most fantastical, unverified stories of shocking racism. Feat. David Platt, Jeff Vanderstelt, Derwin Gray, Eric Mason, Greg Thompson, and Phil Vischer. Music: daveincamas/"Follies" https://freesound.org/people/daveincamas/sounds/44074/ WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://www.gab.com/wokepreacherclips/

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, promoting his book "How To Be An Antiracist" in Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church, explains why liberation theology conforms to his antiracist paradigm but scripturally orthodox "savior theology" does not. --TRANSCRIPT-- QUESTION: I'm curious if you see any role that churches or communities of faith can play in this antiracist movement. IBRAM X. KENDI: So, yeah, I'm a preacher's kid. And my parents pretty much met in what was known as the Black Power movement. But more specifically for them, the movement for black theology. And so they were both Christians who imagined that the church was supposed to be an engine of liberation, that Christianity was supposed to be a source of liberation for black people and humanity. They looked at Jesus as black, who had a 'fro like they had their 'fros. And what I sort of ultimately realized in analyzing the form of Christianity that they were raised in, particularly during the black theology movement and, I should say, contrasting that with the form of Christianity that 80% of white evangelicals had when they voted for Donald Trump. I think one of the ways we can distinguish it is one being liberation theology. In other words, Jesus was a revolutionary and the job of the Christian is to revolutionize society. That the job of the Christian is to liberate society from the powers on earth that are oppressing humanity. Everybody understand that? So that's liberation theology in a nutshell. Savior theology is a different type of theology. The job of the Christian is to go out and save these individuals who are behaviorally deficient. In other words, we're to bring them into the church, these individuals who are doing all of these evil, sinful things and heal them and save them. And then once we've saved them, we've done our jobs. And to me, antiracists fundamentally reject savior theology. That goes right in line with racist ideas and racist theology, in which they say, "You know what, black people, other racial groups, the reason why they're struggling on earth is because of what they're behaviorally doing wrong, and it is my job as the pastor to sort of say these wayward black people or wayward poor people or wayward queer people." That type of theology breeds bigotry. And so to me, the type of theology of liberation theology breeds a common humanity, a common humanity against the structures of power that oppress us all. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhbbmjqcRvY WPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV WPC on Facebook: https://facebook.com/wokepreacherclips WPC on Gab: https://gab.com/wokepreacherclips

Middle Church of New York City celebrated Ash Wednesday (2/26/20) in memoriam of Trayvon Martin, who was killed the same day in 2012. Reverends Jacqui Lewis, Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft, and Benjamin Perry take the podium in hoodies and lead prayers for progressive political activism before serving their congregation Skittles and Arizona iced tea during the time of communion. Selected quotes from this service: "There aren't many theological absolutes, but this much I know: God did not call Trayvon Martin home. God did not call Sandra Bland home. God did not call Matthew Shepard home. God does not call home the 250,000 people who die every year from poverty, nor the 40,000 people who died last year from gun violence. The thousands of people who have died in Puerto Rico from this [Trump] administration's racist neglect. All these folks may be at home with God, but they were snatched from our world far before their time." "I know that in the promised land we're walking toward, no one dies at white supremacy's bloodied hands. And no one dies from poverty, and no one dies from homophobia, and no life is cut short by patriarchal violence. No seat is left empty because the person who used to sit in it was uninsured." "God is alive in the tears that Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin weep for their son. And God was with Trayvon in the moment of his crucifixion. For as the Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas says, it is in the face of Trayvon dying on a sidewalk that we see Jesus dying on a cross. To know the extent of God's love, one must recognize Jesus in the face of Trayvon." "[in prayer] We have not always loved ourselves. We have not always loved our neighbors. White people like myself have benefited from the system of white supremacy and have failed to end it in all times and all ways. Even today, our failure to pass sane gun reform has taken the lives that are still being counted in Milwaukee." "We're not gonna let anyone turn us around because we know where we are headed. We're going towards a world where a black teenager buying snacks at a convenience store is not viewed as any more dangerous in a hood than I am right now." Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpbwaWEDcCg Get the latest Woke Preacher Clips on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV

A supercut of Woke Preacher Clips' finest reparations content, as a special thank you to my followers. Featuring: -Dr. Eric Mason, Epiphany Fellowship -William Branch, "The Ambassador" -Dr. Brian Howell, Wheaton College -Rev. Duke Kwon, Grace Meridian Hill -Dr. Greg Thomas, PCA Teaching Elder -Thabiti Anyabwile, Anacostia River Church Watch the latest Woke Preacher Clips on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV