"My Whole Black Self:" Leading as a Black Pastor in White Dominant Spaces: Marvin Williams

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Marvin Williams is lead pastor at Trinity Church in Lansing Michigan, who’s finishing a Doctorate at Fuller Theological, where he’s writing a dissertation titled, “My Whole Black Self” which focuses on self-differentiation of black men living in predominantly white spaces. -- If you've enjoyed this content, please subscribe to my channel! Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw Or you can support me directly through Venmo: @Preston-Sprinkle-1 Visit my personal website: https://www.prestonsprinkle.com For questions about faith, sexuality & gender: https://www.centerforfaith.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the ROM. My guest today is my friend
0:04.4	Pastor Marvin Williams, who's a lead pastor at Trinity Church in Lansing, Michigan, who is also
0:09.3	finishing his doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary. The title of his dissertation is My Whole Black
0:16.1	Self, which focuses on self-differentiation of black men living in predominantly white spaces,
0:22.1	which is the topic of our conversation,
0:24.1	really learned a ton of this conversation.
0:25.8	And as you'll see,
0:26.7	Marvin is just an absolute delight,
0:30.0	delightful conversational partner and just a solid pastor,
0:34.7	who I've looked up to you for many years.
0:36.5	The Exiles Conference, don't forget, is coming up April 3rd to 5th in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
0:41.5	We're talking about all kinds of important and crucial topics.
0:44.9	It's going to be a fantastic conference.
0:46.4	If you want to attend live, you can do so.
0:49.0	Space will start filling up soon.
0:51.2	Or you can live stream it if you can't make it out to Minneapolis.
0:54.8	All the information is at TheologyinTheRaw.com. All right. Please welcome to the show for the first
0:59.3	time, my friend Marvin Williams. Pastor Marvin Williams. It's been a while.
1:11.3	It's been a minute.
1:12.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:13.7	Where did we first, we met in Grand Rapids years ago.
1:17.7	Was it like six years?
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