Black and Blurred

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. In this long-awaited episode, Brandon shares his personal testimony of faith in Jesus and his upbringing. He highlight's the Lord's unwavering faithfulness throughout his childhood all the way through his time pastoring at a church that embraced Black Lives Matter rhetoric a...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. There is something that every shepherd ought to have buried in his heart - a desire to protect. Before we even discuss the ability to protect proficiently, it must start with a desire. The fallout from the MLK episodes left a lasting scar. Genuine astonishment took place at the flippa...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. If there is one thing that has been exposed through our hyper-politicized climate over the past decade, it has been the political and ethnic idolatry that is deeply rooted in our society. One of those idols is erected in what is colloquially called, 'The Black Church".  Bran...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. In today's political climate, the American church, depending on who you speak with, is on the brink of a moral relapse or on the brink of a golden age. How did we get to such an impasse amongst Christians? Is DOGE that big a deal for Christians and their convictions? Where were t...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Are we allowed to talk about marginalization and white Christians in the same breath? Is that really a thing? Do white-American Christians feel the pressure of the growing racial tension between ethnic subcultures in the country? Are they allowed to ask questions about it? Are Daren a...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We're joined again by Alissa Hollander who shares some stories we can all relate to: having tough conversations about faith with those who vehemently disagree. As a lover of apologetics, Alissa wanted the opportunity to share her beliefs amidst tense disagreement but wasn't...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. This is our first episode discussing the President elect, Donald J. Trump. Unfortunately, things seem to be going the exact way it went 8 years ago. We don't know if we have it in us to do the conservative apologetics that we did 4 years ago around the beginning of our podcast. W...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. This is part 2 of the MLK conversation. Daren and I have a follow up discussion. This time, rather than discuss his faith, we discuss his lack of moral character and the picking and choosing people do in order to justify the horrific acts we highlight.  See Episode #104 for our conver...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. This is a conversation dissecting one aspect of the MLK narrative that we need to be willing to properly analyze. Who was MLK? Is he an American hero to be celebrated? Does he value what you value?  Who was he as a black American? Did he fight for values of black Americans? Who was he...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We are joined by Teasi Cannon who, through her unwavering faith in Jesus as her rock has endured some of the harshest treatment as a member of a local body. She tells her story of church betrayal and hurt from her former pastor and helps younger believers navigate the differences betw...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. How many podcasts have you listened to on race? How many books? How many christian-based seminars have you sat in to be reminded that america has a race problem? How many times have you heard the christian retort, "no! America has a sin problem!" I agree with the latter sent...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We give you our miniature 2024 highlights, B&B edition. These things that we remember from 24' either need to be thrown in the trash or brought into 2025 with us? What say you? What are some things we missed? What needs to be thrown away or brought with us?  Here's to 20...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Peace is a major theme around the Christmas holiday. For the Christian, we know that Jesus is not only the reason for this season but He is our peace. What does it even mean to say, "Jesus is Our Peace". How then should we live based on this reality? How does it play into th...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Hello B&B listeners! Did you know that we have a YouTube Channel? Help us grow the channel by subscribing to us and interacting with our content. Your likes and comments go a long way! Stay tuned for some great episodes in the new year and coming up before Christmas we will have a...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We know. We know...Christian content creators and podcasters have been doing episodes on the new movie wicked ad nauseum. However, it is a guarantee you haven't heard an episode like this! We are joined again by our friend and sister in Christ, Amy from Eyes on the Right Podcast...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We are joined by Miss Tytus Jones ; content creator and budding apologist YouTuber who walks with us as we introduce many to and enrage more with our conversation on black fraternities and sororities. Are these social groups that are meant to enliven your college experience? Is there...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Thanksgiving has just passed and Brandon spends some time reflecting on God's goodness in his life, ministry and this podcast journey. He also touches on the reality of satan's attack on Christians through highlighting skin over a savior. Lastly, Black and Blurred had the bi...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Brandon is back in Baltimore. Daren is still in Silver Spring and Black and Blurred is still in your ear! For this post election episode, we discuss our thoughts in the panel we joined before our break with Truth and Fire. We also reflect on the disgraceful behavior of many Kamala sup...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Join us for a livestream with Veritéetfeu, the founder of Truth and Fire along with other Christian content creators and ministers. We discuss the implications of the election, the hidden pros and cons of a Trump or Harris presidency and how Christians ought to prepare for our imminen...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. In this impromptu live stream, Brandon reacts to Thomas Sowell's thoughts on President Donald Trump. He also sits and reads through some messages that came from a listener of Black and Blurred. The conversation was contentious in the beginning, but is blossoming into a fruitful d...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Did you know that the entire LGBTQIA2S+ movement is built on deception and lies? No...really. Why don't more Christians seem to care? Why are more and more Christian placating to the world? Maybe, if your context is anything like ours, you've heard something like:  " Yo...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. There is a new book you need to read - Walking in Unity by Krista Bontrager and Monique Duson from the Center for Biblical Unity. Were you part of a church that espoused every form of divisive rhetoric in the name of social justice and "unity"? Were you aware of how unbiblic...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We are joined by PJ from the Conspiracy Pilled Podcast and we discuss how Hollywood telegraphs its evil nature right before our eyes. Also, we dig into why it seems that Christians are apprehensive to the notion that conspiracies exist. Are conspiracy theories just for tin-foiled, ath...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Churches in America of predominantly black Christians are suffering from a disease that has rotted congregations from the inside out. These pastors are here to give corrective thoughts to the glory of God and for the benefit of His bride. Many will call these men uncle toms, coons, or...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. In this patron only episode, we listen to the story of Ally Carter, an alleged sex-trafficking survivor and in this Instagram live, she tells her story. The point of sharing this story is to open the eyes of the Christian to the realities of evil in this world. Maybe Ally is lying. Ho...