Thank you so much for these episodes! Yes, if it becomes a podcast— great! However we can keep getting these thought-provoking and educational pieces. It is very motivating to personally explore history. Thank you so much. I was needing the hope.😊🙌
Thank you so much. The reason that I listen to you specifically, though I was already aware of the news you were reporting on this time, is that you do go to theology in the Bible, and the other reason is that I know I need to hear from black voices at this time as an old white woman
"steadfastness to keep going" - What a great definition of hope! I've never thought of it that way... I've always thought of hope more as a feeling... but this makes a lot of sense, and also explains why hope is such a powerful thing. ("I hope..." - The Shawshank Redemption) ("Faith Hope and Love" - St. Paul, I Corinthians 13)
Thank you Dr Tisby! It’s an honor to be able to learn from you! I have very little history knowledge and I trust that God is giving us precisely what we need to know thanks to your passion, compassion and obedience. God bless you and strengthen you and keep you brother!
Jemar, I’ve been trying to live out that very kind of hope you describe—not the naïve kind that expects quick victories, but the kind rooted in steadfast presence. For me, that’s meant building direct, servant relationships with those most vulnerable to the forces you’re naming—the families, migrants, and workers that this creeping fascism would rather erase.
In small, local ways, I’m trying to support not only their survival but their flourishing: tutoring a child, showing up at a courtroom hearing, helping someone secure housing or legal aid, sharing meals across divides. It’s not grand or glamorous work, but it feels like the kind of quiet resistance that actually pushes back against despair. When we serve on the margins, we help build the kind of community that tyranny cannot destroy.
Thank you. I have so little hope and it feels like power is concentrated in so few and everyone else really influences a very small sphere. And then there’s the genocide in Gaza and governments choosing to ignore their population’s demands.
We just returned from an 11-day trip in Italy and France, visiting many sites where the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team fought in WWII. These Japanese-American troops (my father-in-law was one) were the most highly decorated unit of its size in US military history. And they served and sacrificed *while* the US gov’t held their families in incarceration camps. As you note, “hope is action,” and I now have a deeper understanding of and appreciation for what hope might look like. It’s a driving force, compelling people to do ‘impossible’ things with no guarantee of surviving, let alone winning. One more reason to learn history!
Dr. Tisby, you are one of the "voices of truth" that I have sought out and listen to regularly. Thank you for continuing to speak up, proclaiming truth and Christian response to all that is going on in our country. Your words of hope in this dark time are so, so encouraging. You have encouraged me not to give up in my resistance and my hope, which is anchored in Christ.
Hebrews 6:19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 20 where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf.
I recently was asked by a clergy colleague about the impact of protest. You have given me a wonderful theological response that I will start with in future discussions. Thank you for all your steadfastness and wonderful teaching.
Thank you so much for these episodes! Yes, if it becomes a podcast— great! However we can keep getting these thought-provoking and educational pieces. It is very motivating to personally explore history. Thank you so much. I was needing the hope.😊🙌
Thanks so much for the encouragement and for tuning in! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
"God does not call us to win. He calls us to be faithful." Amen.
Thank you so much. The reason that I listen to you specifically, though I was already aware of the news you were reporting on this time, is that you do go to theology in the Bible, and the other reason is that I know I need to hear from black voices at this time as an old white woman
"steadfastness to keep going" - What a great definition of hope! I've never thought of it that way... I've always thought of hope more as a feeling... but this makes a lot of sense, and also explains why hope is such a powerful thing. ("I hope..." - The Shawshank Redemption) ("Faith Hope and Love" - St. Paul, I Corinthians 13)
Thank you, Dr Tisby! This was informative, challenging and uplifting. Blessings and hope! God is on the throne. Amen.
Thank you Dr Tisby! It’s an honor to be able to learn from you! I have very little history knowledge and I trust that God is giving us precisely what we need to know thanks to your passion, compassion and obedience. God bless you and strengthen you and keep you brother!
Yes! Please make these into podcasts!
i'd be interested in the weekly podcast
Jemar, I’ve been trying to live out that very kind of hope you describe—not the naïve kind that expects quick victories, but the kind rooted in steadfast presence. For me, that’s meant building direct, servant relationships with those most vulnerable to the forces you’re naming—the families, migrants, and workers that this creeping fascism would rather erase.
In small, local ways, I’m trying to support not only their survival but their flourishing: tutoring a child, showing up at a courtroom hearing, helping someone secure housing or legal aid, sharing meals across divides. It’s not grand or glamorous work, but it feels like the kind of quiet resistance that actually pushes back against despair. When we serve on the margins, we help build the kind of community that tyranny cannot destroy.
Thank you. I have so little hope and it feels like power is concentrated in so few and everyone else really influences a very small sphere. And then there’s the genocide in Gaza and governments choosing to ignore their population’s demands.
We just returned from an 11-day trip in Italy and France, visiting many sites where the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team fought in WWII. These Japanese-American troops (my father-in-law was one) were the most highly decorated unit of its size in US military history. And they served and sacrificed *while* the US gov’t held their families in incarceration camps. As you note, “hope is action,” and I now have a deeper understanding of and appreciation for what hope might look like. It’s a driving force, compelling people to do ‘impossible’ things with no guarantee of surviving, let alone winning. One more reason to learn history!
Dr. Tisby, you are one of the "voices of truth" that I have sought out and listen to regularly. Thank you for continuing to speak up, proclaiming truth and Christian response to all that is going on in our country. Your words of hope in this dark time are so, so encouraging. You have encouraged me not to give up in my resistance and my hope, which is anchored in Christ.
Hebrews 6:19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 20 where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf.
I recently was asked by a clergy colleague about the impact of protest. You have given me a wonderful theological response that I will start with in future discussions. Thank you for all your steadfastness and wonderful teaching.
Thank you, Jemar!
Thank you Jemar . I listen to your podcast as well