Sisters keep sending me clips and links to Mike Todd’s full sermons asking me what I think. They want to listen to them and provide commentary.
I’m not ignoring yall. I’m just not going to do that.
I’m not ignoring yall. I’m just not going to do that.
At some point, as millennial Black faithwomen, we must love ourselves enough to walk away from harmful theologies. We subject ourselves to emotional and spiritual abuse in hopes that God will count it as good and right and bless us.
It’s possible to be widely read in other areas of scholarship in addition to scripture to have an informed view of the world around you. If you love God’s people, you should be doing this. If you love God, you should be listening to people who do this.
I am one who walked away from violent theologies and religious spaces because I loved myself enough to trust that God wanted better for me than believing what comes out of those spaces. Listening to him for longer than 5mins takes me back to a place I have left. I won’t go back.
I read his book because so many sisters were reading it and it was important for me to understand how millennial+Gen Z Black Christian women are being encouraged to view relationships and the biblical interpretation lens they’ve been given. But that’s all yall get from me. LOLOL
There are folks who can and will (and are) analyze his sermons and messages to tell you why they’re dangerous. That’s not me anymore. I’m clear where I stand and, more than I’ve ever been, I’m clear what my mission is.
If you’re interested in reclaiming a relationship with God that’s rooted in grace for yourself and the unwavering truth that, as you are *right now*, you are good creation—then let’s kick it. Let’s grow in new ways and get free together.
If that’s not what you’re on and you find my view of God+scripture offensive, feel free to unfollow and may you be blessed and walk in victory. I’ve wasted too much time trying to convince folks who don’t care that these conversations are important. I’m not doing that anymore.
Wholeness is no trifling matter as Toni Cade Bambara, through Minnie Ransom in “The Salt Eaters”, told us. I want Black women to be whole and well and, for some of us, it will start by refusing to feed our spirits with messages that are counterproductive to that.
So you don’t have to ask me anymore what my thoughts are about anything he preaches and teaches going forward because my question will be to you: If you love yourself and truly believe God does too, then why are you listening/watching it?
