The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) will host a special conversation about race and church next week featuring gospel singer Kirk Franklin, according to CBN.
The announcement comes several months after Franklin boycotted the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards and TBN when comments he made about race and police shootings during the awards ceremony were edited out.
“Today, I feel like quitting. I am heartbroken that I even have to share this with you,” he said in an Instagram video posted in October after the awards. He detailed his speeches both in 2016 and 2019 where he highlighted black deaths by the hands of white police officers, as well as the five police officers shot and killed by a black man in Dallas. Both of those mentions were taken out of his speeches when aired, despite his protests in 2016.
Other artists, such as Lecrae, Tauren Wells, Jeremy Camp, and Mandisa joined the singer’s decision.
Earlier this week, Franklin posted another video announcing “a conversation…that was long overdue” about race and the church. The clip showed TBN president Matt Crouch, Pastor Tony Evans of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship and Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Church in Dallas with Franklin.
“I want to know the conversation that needs to happen. If I’m ignorant, would you help me?” Crouch asked in the video.
“It’s a conversation about race and the church. It was a painful but…
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