Griots' Gospel

Join Spencer and Jordyn as they explore what Genesis 1 has to say to us about the rest of the text and what in the ministry of Yeshua points back here.

Join Spencer and Jordyn as they reimagine where the podcast is headed and discuss what is on their heart moving forward.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they debrief Season Two's content and lay the track for what the show will become.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they discuss what they see happening in Winston-Salem as the Kingdom of Heaven reaches its fullness even now.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they discuss Yeshua’s inbreaking kingdom in our backyard and how we deal with modern-day realities and culture.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they continue to discuss what Yeshua’s mission to “the other side” says to us about our modern-day realities and how we deal with culture.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they unpack what Yeshua’s mission to “the other side” says to us about our division in the Twin-City. Study Tools Matthew 7:22 - 9:38 ( ⁠https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207%3A22%20-%209%3A38&version=TLV⁠ ) Luke 8:26 - 39 ( ⁠https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%208%3A26%20-%2039&version=TLV⁠ ) Matthew 15:21 - 39 ( ⁠ht...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they finish out their historic timeline of Winston-Salem, making their way to our modern day. Review Timeline 1918   A riot takes place in Winston-Salem targeting African Americans; violence erupts in the heart of the city as police try to protect an innocent African-American man from a mob of people attempting to take his life. 1930 Seventeen years from when William Dar...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they unpack the origin of the African-American churches in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and their role in creating the public schools of Forsyth County. Review Timeline 1865 May 21st, 1865 General Orders 32 announces the freedom of enslaved African Americans at The Brick Church. • Rev. Seth Clark of the Ohio 10th Calvary reads Military Order No.32 at the Brick Church a...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they discuss the legislation surrounding Black identity pre-Civil War and how that led to the building of North Carolina's oldest standing African-American church. Review Timeline 1830 Following the publication of Freedman’s Papers, laws on Black literacy became even stricter. 1831 The Southampton Insurrection (Nat Turner’s Revolt or Rebellion) becomes the deadliest slav...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they discuss the beginning of the oldest African American church in North Carolina, and what it tells us the Kingdom of Heaven is like. Review Timeline 1816 People of African Descent, Black people, are no longer allowed in God’s Acre . Converts or not. Note that, following Peter Oliver, the only other Black person buried in God’s Acre is the child of Bodney and Pheobe, f...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they discuss the divide between the Moravians of Winston-Salem and their Afro-Moravian brothers as they assimilate to American Culture. Review Timeline 1791 George Washington stayed in Salem’s Tavern while on his Southern Tour.  In accordance with his long-held 1789 desire to tour every region of the United States, Washington takes a Spring (March 21 – June 4) tour of th...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they discuss the Moravian mission to North Carolina and the beginning of Afro-Moravian identity.   Review Timeline 1731 Zinzendorf has his first contact with a “heathen” convert. The Mission to St. Thomas begins in the Caribbean.  Zinzendorf’s personal philosophy that promoting the worth of all humanity allowed him to conceptualize the “heathen” in cultural, not racial,...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they discuss the origins of the Moravians and their faith, seeing how that sets the stage for modern-day North Carolina.   Review Timline 1619 The first African slaves brought to America.  1680 Initially enslavement is [officially] defined not by skin color but by religion.  The Virginia General Assembly declared that "All servants imported and brought into this cou...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they set the table for their discussion of the Moravians of Wachovia and the modern-day city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.   Review Timeline 1619 The first African slaves were brought to America.  1680 Initially, enslavement is [officially] defined not by skin color but by religion.  The Virginia General Assembly declared that "All servants imported and brought...

Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey have an outroduction conversation about what it has been like to record the season, how they’ve grown through the process, and what is up ahead.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they conclude this session by examining what The Text has to say about the historical context of Yeshua’s ministry and what that can reveal about the ministry of cultural reconciliation. Study Tools Galatians 4:1 - 9 ( https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians%204%3A1-9&version=TLV ) Matthew 24:35 - 44 ( https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they discuss Yeshua’s view of The Kingdom of Heaven and how it opposes the Empire-Building of The World and the world’s use of coloniality.  Study Tools Matthew 7:22 - 9:38 ( https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207%3A22%20-%209%3A38&version=TLV ) Luke 8:26 - 39 ( https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%208%3A26%20-%2039&ver...

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they unpack Yeshua’s mission to “the other side” of the Sea of the Galilee and what that speaks to about our ideas of race .   Study Tools Matthew 7:22 - 9:38 ( https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207%3A22%20-%209%3A38&version=TLV ) Luke 8:26 - 39 ( https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%208%3A26%20-%2039&version=TLV ) Mat...

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they have a tender conversation about authenticity, the ministry of reconciliation, and what lies at the heart of Yeshua that compels us to speak truth.

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they abridge Episode 4.

Join Jordyn Jones and Spencer Aubrey as they use Stuart Hall and Paulo Freire’s work to unpack the concept of race as a tool for Empire in a culture of coloniality .   Study Tools The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34688911-the-fateful-triangle ) Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393147...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they abridge Episode 3.

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they discuss Aníbal Quijano’s concept of coloniality and how that bleeds into our construction of Empire .   Study Tools Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power by Aníbal Quijano ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192747668-an-bal-quijano ) Two Decades of Aníbal Quijano’s Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America by José Guadalupe Ga...

Join Jordyn and Spencer as they abridge Episode 2.