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SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. In the conclusion of our series on manhood, we finish discussing fatherhood and the tragic realities that our cities have been left in due to the lack of two-parent homes and men who commit to their families. Politics play a role in all of this. Who you vote for may have a bigger part...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Throughout the history of the country, fathers have been a staple of a healthy society. Fatherlessness is the antithesis. When we look around and we see society crumbling, we need to look at our homes. Before we point the finger of blame too fast, there is much at play when it comes t...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. There have been movies that have changed faces and have led to subsequent outcries. Is this something really worth being upset over? IS this something to bat an eye at? The new actress cats as Arielle (Halle Bailey) is caught in the crossfire of heated debate surrounding the new look...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Daren is going out of town so you'll have to wait for our last installment of the Biblically Manhood series for once he is back. Until then...we sat and had a candid conversation about some of what was discussed during the previous episode. What are some things we missed? We try...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We hand the reins to our boy Joey Perez to walk us through some examples that are far too often presented to men as healthy examples of manhood. Charles Spurgeon once said, "Discernment is not knowing the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Discernment is knowing...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. You know the saying..."when life hands you lemons...". With our studio equipment putting a damper in our second installment of the Biblical Manhood series, we didn't want to leave you without an episode, so today we give our thoughts on some things that have been circul...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. In the opening episode of the biblical manhood series, we discuss marriage and the role of husband., What is this role? How has man's failure to dwell in this role well harmed society? Are men really to blame for the shape society is in currently? One aspect of manhood that is al...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Back from social and podcasting hiatus, we're playing catchup! There are many things to discuss, among which are, steller marksmanship, false teachers, and a demonic diva - just to name a few.   Support the show Hosts: Brandon and Daren Smith Learn of Brandon's Church Planti...

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 offcially in the summer season. We're grateful for the Black and Blurred Podcast and how God has sustained us for 2 years. It is time for a little rest! We will rejoin you in August with New Episodes! We also have some cool updates or you! Support the show Hosts: Brand...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Matt Walsh's 'What is a Woman' is still trending for its brilliance in highlighting the psychological failings of a lot of what is being propagated as hope for many people. How does this new wave postmodern thought line up with conversations on race and critical theory?...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. There seemed to be many men who were apart of the weeping and gnashing of teeth following the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Why has healthy manhood been decimated so? Is the condition of the west a result of a lack of biblical manhood? In this first installment on our manhood seri...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Do you remember our friend and brother David who was patient with us as we hammered the Joe Biden "Come on" button?? Well, he is back to bless us with his presence and today, he comes as a pastor of a predominantly black church in Seattle. What he has learned so far is worth...

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 Christian Instagram influencer, wife and mother, Natalie of @StopandConsider and we talk biblical womanhood. The world is unraveling (at least in the US, it is) and we're hitting the pause button to discuss the joys of living under the rulership of the good sheph...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Obviously, when it comes to content for a podcast or blog, Pride month is low hanging fruit. In this episode, we lift the conversation to that of sexuality and its boundaries. Why is homosexuality deemed immoral by the God of the Bible? Is it because people don't love each other...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Today, Brandon sits with writer and blogger Hilda Bih - a sister and beloved friend who joins us to give clarity to the blurred lens of Africans in today's growing narratives. Confined to a wheelchair for the majority of her life, she offers an insightful perspective on suffering...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Brandon found himself in the comment section of a post that was sent to him regarding sexual abuse in the catholic church. He responded to a comment from a former chirstian who ridiculed the church for being pro-life yet silent on the topic of sexual abuse. More comments insued and we...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We sit with Constance Troutman, writer at Truth and Fire Blog who also appeared in the American Gospel series. We discuss coming out of cultural Christianity and the toxic teachings that have plagued majority black churches and still plague them today. Support the show Hosts: Brandon...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We finally round out our gaslight series with COVID. There is so much to say about the last 3 years. I think the one word that sums up our experience is gaslighting: "Wear masks!"..."don't wear masks"..."don't take the vaccine"...."take the...

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 back with another episode with some great new friends and sisters of the faith, Kat and Novella to talk America's narratives for minorities. How should minorities in the country feel when they seem to disagree with every talking point place in behalf of minorities?? Su...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. We bring back the head Professional Party Pooper to talk about some very popular ideologies shared by Christians today that find their origin in New Thought Ideology. How should we feel about affirmations, vison boards and the like? Well....Marica shares some truth bombs with us. Brin...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Church Hurt is real. It needs to be addressed. It also needs to be properly distinguised from church bitterness, church disagreement and church rebellion. Brandon sits with Christian Instagram influencer and friend, Izzy of SaintsandSociety to talk about what church hurt is and what i...

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 an episode we did reluctantly. In case you haven't heard, Show Time Cable network has a new docuseries called "Everything is Gonna be All White". In short, it is disgusting. It is 3, terribly written and prduced episodes of hateful rhetoric against those with wh...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Brandon shares his and his wife's journey through infertility. He shares how God brought conviction when they sought Him with the desire to conceive a child. How tightly do you hold onto your plans? We pray this episode brings an encouraging reminder of the God we serve! Support...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. (Late Episode) Since political correctness has evolved to cancel culture, there have been many who stood on the side of dissent; only to be met with gaslighting and slander. Now, the tables have turned. Cancel Culture's progenitors are experiencing the indiscriminate tyranny of t...

SEND US A MESSAGE! We'd Love to Chat With you and Hear your thoughts! We'll read them on the next episode. Book referenced: The Best of Thomas Sowell by Dean Kalahar Support the show Hosts: Brandon and Daren Smith Learn of Brandon's Church Planting Call Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackandblurred Paypal: https://paypal.me/blackandblurred YouTube: Black and Blurred Podcast IG: @BlackandBl...