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Faithfully Magazine Managing Editor Nicola A. Menzie talks current events, culture and entertainment, and interviews experts to go deeper on tough topics. Make sure to hit the “subscribe” button and visit faithfullymagazine.com to learn more about how the “News With Nicola” podcast keeps it real, relevant, and faithful.
In this episode, religion reporter Nicola A. Menzie looks at Will Smith’s new movie “Emancipation.” The film is inspired by the true story of “Whipped Peter,” an escaped slave with a scarred back. She takes a look at the history and how faith is central to the film.
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White Evangelical churches can do it, but Black churches can't? In the Nov. 6 episode of “News With Nicola,” host Nicola A. Menzie takes a look at a news item related to Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, and at the general issue of churches and pastors getting politically involved during election season.
Christian comedian KevOnStage loses his brother, Netflix produces a Christian horror film based on true events, and Bishop T.D. Jakes steps aside for his daughter — this, and more, in the new episode of “News With Nicola,” hosted by religion reporter and faithfullymagazine.com managing editor Nicola A. Menzie.
Nicola takes a look at the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s home and reaction from his Republican base and loyal White Evangelical supporters. Read the article for this episode at faithfullymagazine.com.
Nicola talks with Bobby and Cheryl Love, a couple from New York City whose lives were turned upside down a few years ago when the NYPD and FBI showed up at their door, asking for Walter Miller. But who was Walter Miller, Mrs. Love wanted to know. As events unfolded over, Mrs. Love and her four children learned that the man they had called husband and father for the past 30-plus years had an astonishing past. Walter Miller — or Bobby Love — was a convicted bank robber wanted for escaping a North Carolina prison almost 40 years ago.
After their story went viral in a “Humans of New York” post, the Loves decided to share their story with the world. Their new book, “The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice,” takes readers back to that fateful day. In the following interview, the Loves reveal lessons they’ve learned, why they believe God was looking out for them...and why they’ve been thinking about Samuel L. Jackson and Loretta Divine. Watch the video version of this interview at https://faithfullymagazine.com/bobby-love-cheryl-love-redemption-interview/. Grab their book: https://amzn.to/3FysYjF.
In this episode of “News With Nicola,” we take a look at a church in Texas that has become the epicenter of a major COVID outbreak. We also look at the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s recent moves on same-sex marriage, and at the assassination of Haiti’s president and an evangelical pastor’s arrest in the case. Also, we hear a bit of Associate Editor Timothy Isaiah Cho’s interview with author Jackie Hill Perry about her latest book, “Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him” (https://amzn.to/3r8ZO3E). Read show notes, transcripts, and related links for this episode at https://faithfullymagazine.com/news-with-nicola. Email us at podcast@faithfullymagazine.com or connect via https://twitter.com/namenzie and https://twitter.com/faithfullymag.
In this episode of “News With Nicola,” we look at residential boarding schools and cultural genocide of Indigenous communities, Hillsong Church’s “culture of chaos” getting the documentary treatment, and father-and-son pastors arrested for the Capitol siege. Plus, hear an excerpt of our interview with Dr. Anthea Butler, author of “White Evangelical Racism.” Get show notes and the full transcript at faithfullymagazine.com.
In this episode of "News With Nicola" we take a look at Juneteenth becoming a new federal holiday. We also briefly take a look at Republican dissent to the bill — apparently celebrating the end of slavery is "unAmerican." And we wrap things up by listening to a few snippets of an archival interview with a formerly enslaved woman from Texas who comments on the first Juneteenth and what church was like for enslaved African Americans. For show notes and related links go to https://faithfullymagazine.com.
Welcome to another episode of “News With Nicola,” a Faithfully Magazine podcast brought to you by Faithfully Media and hosted by Nicola A. Menzie, managing editor at faithfullymagazine.com.
In this episode of “News With Nicola” we take a look at three items closely related to everyone’s new favorite subject: Critical Race Theory, or CRT.
We look at the rash of state laws banning Critical Race Theory from being taught in classrooms; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s strange and unusual decision to not offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, head of “The 1619 project”; and finally, we look at the Southern Baptist Convention which has its annual meeting in a few days.
To help us sort through some CRT questions, we talk with Dr. Glenn E. Bracey, assistant professor of sociology at Villanova University. I’ll tell you more about Dr. Bracey as we get closer to the interview.
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Faithfully Magazine Managing Editor Nicola A. Menzie introduces the “News With Nicola” podcast in which she talks current events, culture and entertainment, and interviews experts to go deeper on tough topics. Make sure to hit the “subscribe” button and visit faithfullymagazine.com to learn more about how the “News With Nicola” podcast keeps it real, relevant, and faithful.