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Sho Baraka
Amisho “Sho” Baraka is a self-described polymath. Sho Baraka travels the world as an artist, performer, consultant and lecturer. Sho has four solo albums, three feature film appearances and one book, He Saw That It Was Good. He is a co-founder of The And Campaign, a Christian Civic organization, and founding member of the internationally known hip-hop consortium 116 Clique. Sho served as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University & Warner Pacific University. Sho is currently editorial director of Big Tent at Christianity Today. He lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife Patreece and their three children. Sho & Patreece have two boys on the autism spectrum and find themselves as advocates in the autism community.
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The Just Life with Benjamin Watson
Sho Baraka: The Promise We Never Kept
Exploring justice rooted in faith, beyond repentance and towards repair.
We Have Not Read MLK Enough
Americans have strong opinions about the civil rights leader but often simplistic notions of who he was.
Disintegration is the Church’s Greatest Threat
A note from Mission Advancement about the Big Tent Initiative and One Kingdom Campaign.
The Best of CT’s Big Tent Initiative in 2025
Glimpses of the diversity within the evangelical church in the United States.
Dreaming Against the Machine
Technologies like AI privilege “growth” and “effectiveness” over imagination and inefficiency. God operates differently.
The Bulletin
Saudi Crown Prince Visit, GOP Realignment, and the Performative Male
Trump hosts Saudi royalty, Republicans navigate shifts in the party, and a TikTok trend jokes about masculine sensitivity.
Mastering Masculinity
Jason Wilson’s rite of passage combines martial arts, emotional stability, and lessons from the Bible.
The Russell Moore Show
Sho Baraka on Matters of the Soul Post-2020
Hip-Hop artist and Big Tent Initiative Director Sho Baraka joins for a deeply personal conversation about the universal and individual effects of the year 2020.
The Bulletin
Epstein Distractions, Coldplay Kiss Cam, and Christians in Gaza
The Bulletin discusses Trump’s tactics for sidestepping the Epstein conversation, the Coldplay jumbotron incident, and Israeli strikes on churches in Gaza and the West Bank
In Defense of Colloquial Theology
Don’t insult my grandma’s hermeneutics. Her theology may not have come from seminary, but it came from suffering and trust.