Jude 3 Project

The stats are sobering. Among Black Gen Z, nearly 1 in 3 now have no religious affiliation. Belief in the Bible's accuracy is dropping fast. The questions are real, and the silence from the Church is loud. We're losing over 1 million young people from the faith every year. But there’s hope. ✨ The Jude 3 Project is on the front lines helping a generation find real answers for the toughest questions around faith, race, and identity. With clarity and charity, we’re equipping a generation to understand what they believe and why they believe it. 📊 The Impact Your support fuels this movement: • 170K+ actively engaged online • 4,300+ trained • Documentaries like Unspoken & Juneteenth streamed 80M+ minutes on Fox Soul, PBS, Tubi & Amazon Prime This video tells the stories behind the stats—students finding real answers and faith that finally makes sense. 🙏🏾 Partner with us today to change the trajectory for this generation. 🔗 Link to donate in bio #Jude3Project #Apologetics #BlackGenZ #ChristianityExplained #FaithQuestions #Unspoken #Juneteenth #hbcus #YouthMinistry #BlackChurch #HelpFaithMakeSense

JSU WE ARE COMING FOR YOU. The Ask Initiative is headed to Jackson State and we are bringing free food, real conversations, and two $500 book scholarships with us. We are going straight to the hard questions. Sexuality. The Bible. The problem of evil. No dodging. No sugar coating. Just honest conversation backed by Scripture. Tag a JSU student who needs to be in the room. #JacksonState #JSU #AskInitiative #Jude3Project #HBCU

JSU WE ARE COMING FOR YOU. The Ask Initiative is headed to Jackson State and we are bringing free food, real conversations, and two $500 book scholarships with us. We are going straight to the hard questions. Sexuality. The Bible. The problem of evil. No dodging. No sugar coating. Just honest conversation backed by Scripture. Tag a JSU student who needs to be in the room. #JacksonState #JSU #AskInitiative #Jude3Project #HBCU #FaithAndDoubt #CollegeFaith

Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is listen. Not to fix. Not to correct. Just to sit with the pain and acknowledge it. Healing doesn’t start with answers — it starts with being heard. #Jude3Project #CourageousConversations #Christian #listening #healing

The Ask Initiative is a full-day campus experience centered on student voices. During the day, we interview students about their real thoughts on faith, Christianity, and the church. That night, students bring their questions to a live Q&A conversation. If you are a student leader, campus minister, faculty member, or staff at an HBCU, this is your opportunity to host meaningful dialogue on your campus. Fill out the Bring Us to Your HBCU form at jude3project.org/asktour and let’s start the conversation where your students are.

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When a spiritual hero falls, the impact extends beyond headlines. It touches hearts. It shakes faith. It leaves questions we were never taught how to ask. This new book from our founder and CEO, @lisavfields, is a guide for the ones navigating that aftermath. A path through grief, toward restoration, and back to the only hero who never fails. Cover revealed. Releases June 16, 2026. Available for preorder now.

“Read the Bible for transformation, not just information.” - Lisa Fields Slow down. Take your time. Each time you open the Bible, God can reveal something new — not because the words have changed, but because of what He’s showing you in this season of life. 🎥 Clip from Jude 3’s Ask Initiative panel at Morehouse College #Jude3Project #AskInitiative #Christian #BibleStudy #Bible

What do we turn to when life gets heavy — prayer, crystals, sage, vibes, distractions? College students share their thoughts. #Jude3Project #ASKInitiative #College #HBCUVoices #Peace #Sage #Crystals #NewAge #Christian #Religion #Prayer #Bible

“You cannot tell me that God has a problem with female bodies when that’s where He chooses to come first.” - Dr. Jo Vitale Dr. Jo Vitale points to how the incarnation itself is God’s declaration of honor over women. Jesus entered the world carried, sustained, and nurtured by a woman. God does not see women as inferior or impure. He made them in His image and he is radically for their inclusion in every part of His kingdom. 📺 Clip from Problematic Passages 2025, sponsored by @ivpress. Watch the full conversation on the Jude 3 Project YouTube channel or listen wherever you stream podcasts

"The most profoundly well-adjusted and joyful person who ever existed was never married." - Dr. Esau McCaulley Dr. Esau McCaulley pushes us to confront the way we approach marriage, singleness, and community. Scripture treats marriage as a metaphor — a sign pointing beyond itself to God’s covenantal love for His people. When we make marriage the ultimate thing, we distort the picture and God it was truly meant to reflect. Singleness isn’t a waiting room. Marriage isn’t a finish line. Both are contexts where we should glorify the God we will one day be joined together with in heaven. 📺 Clip from Problematic Passages 2025, sponsored by IVP. Watch the full conversation on the Jude 3 Project YouTube channel or listen wherever you stream podcasts #Jude3Project #ProblematicPassages #EsauMcCaulley #JoVitale #Marriage #Singleness #Loneliness #Christian #Community #Faith #Relationships #Bible #Covenant

Dr. Michael Walters shares the moment that carried his family through the most terrifying days of their lives. Their newborn faced congenital heart surgery at just four days old, and yet, God met them with a reminder they didn’t expect: Faith was literally taking care of Hope. From watching their child’s beating heart to having a $1 million medical bill paid in full, their testimony is simple but powerful — “the same God that did it before” is the One who carries us through every impossible moment. When obstacles feel insurmountable, remember what God has already done. Faith still takes care of hope. 📺 Clip from the 2024 Courageous Conversation panel, "Can I Trust That God Will Provide For My Financial Needs?" #Jude3Project #CourageousConversations #FaithAndHope #Testimony #GodDidItBefore #Christian #Miracle #Provision

“Jesus and His body come as a package deal.” - Dr. Bobby Manning That line hits different when you realize how many of us have tried to follow Jesus… alone. Dr. Bobby Manning reminds that the following Jesus was never designed to be a solo pursuit. Community is where we’re strengthened, encouraged, challenged… and yes, sometimes annoyed. But it’s also where God shapes us — because “Jesus really doesn’t let us engage Him without His body.” Church isn't about perfect people — it's about walking with God and finding people who will walk alongside you. #Jude3Project #ASKInitiative #MorganState #HBCUVoices #Church #BodyOfChrist #Faith #Christianity

Anglican priest Justice Okoronkwo unpacks the spiritual worldview of African traditional religions and how Christianity flips that entire structure on its head. In Christianity, God connects to man directly because Jesus has paved the way. No intermediaries. No spirit-world hierarchy. Just direct access, bold and unhindered — allowing us to come boldly before the throne of grace. 📺 Clip from Jude 3 Project's course on "Engaging African Spirituality", prepared by Justice Okoronkwo. For more online courses, visit learn.jude3project.org/library/ #Jude3Project #AfricanSpirituality #Christianity #ReligiousCosmology #Ancestors #Bible

“When teaching me history, why do you always have to start with slavery? Always keeping those chains on me.” - Sho Baraka, shared by Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates In this clip, Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates pushes back on the idea that Black Christianity began on American plantations. He reminds us that there is a clear, documented line of African Christians — from North Africa to West Africa — long before the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Africans before slavery were not only principals, school teachers, and court scribes but they were also pastors, priests, catechists, scholars, monarchs, and everyday believers who were already following Jesus on African soil. To begin the story at slavery is to accept a false narrative that was never ours. Black Christians existed before bondage. And their faith shaped the world. 📺 Clip from Jude 3 Project's course on Contributions of the Black Church, prepared by Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates. For more online courses, visit learn.jude3project.org/library/ #Jude3Project #BlackChurch #AfricanChristianity #BlackChristianity #Slavery #Faith #History #Christian #BlackHistory #1619

This Giving Tuesday, your gift to The Jude 3 Project can go twice as far! We have a generous donor who has agreed to match every dollar you give, up to $15,000! This is an incredible opportunity to double the impact you have on our work. Your Support Helps Us: - Continue the work of helping faith make sense for the next generation and beyond. - Fund our ASK Initiative on HBCU campuses across - Host our Courageous Conversation Pop-Ups - Create more multimedia resources to help faith make sense We cannot do what we do without generous support from people like you. So partner with us and DONATE TODAY at jude3project.org!

This Giving Tuesday, your gift to The Jude 3 Project can go twice as far! We have a generous donor who has agreed to match every dollar you give, up to $15,000! This is an incredible opportunity to double the impact you have on our work. Your Support Helps Us: - Continue the work of helping faith make sense for the next generation and beyond. - Fund our ASK Initiative on HBCU campuses across - Host our Courageous Conversation Pop-Ups - Create more multimedia resources to edify the Church We cannot do what we do without generous support from people like you. So mark your calendars, plan ahead, and partner with us to help faith make sense this Giving Tuesday!

“We need to trade the ‘forgive and forget’ model for ‘forgive and faithfully cast.’” - Yana Conner Yana Conner reminds us that forgiveness isn’t amnesia. Real forgiveness is choosing, again and again, to release what you can’t carry. And isn’t a one-time event. It’s a rhythm that God models — and invites us into. 📺 Watch the full conversation on the Jude 3 Project YouTube channel or listen wherever you stream podcasts #Jude3Project #YanaConner #Forgiveness #Grace #GodsMercy #Healing #Christian #Bible

Dr. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson breaks down a simple but often overlooked truth: evangelism isn’t about creating events for people to come to us — it starts with meeting people where they are. From the first disciples to the woman at the well, the gospel spread through relationships: a brother telling his brother, a friend telling a friend. Everyday believers have agency. Everyday encounters matter. And the whole Church has work to do. ✨ 📺 Watch the full conversation on the Jude 3 Project YouTube channel or listen wherever you stream podcasts #Jude3Project #Evangelism #Community #Discipleship #Faith #EverydayLife #Bible #Christian

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Students from Tuskegee University speak candidly about the tension many people feel: the pull of love and commitment before marriage, and the call to see sex as something sacred, not casual. For them, it isn’t about shame — it’s about honoring something meaningful enough to be held, protected, and fully enjoyed in the right context. #Jude3Project #ASKInitiative #TuskegeeUniversity #FaithAndRelationships #SexualEthic #HBCUVoices #ChristianDating