Anthony Evans – Life, And Everything Else

CCM: What do you think about the Black Life Matters movement?
AE: I haven’t studied the movement to know everything they stand for. I do feel strong about any movement that is perpetuating a thought of “lives matter,” in general. I think the BLM movement is strong, but it’s only strong if it’s not being divisive. I think the only time you are being strong is when you are promoting a unified effort. This movement, which I think in a lot of ways, is changing the views of people. If people have a negative definition of a black male, I would want people to look at me [in the hopes] they can redefine that in their eyes. If that is what BLM is about, then I’m all into that. I’m all into helping people change their perspective, especially if they don’t value a life just because they may not look like their own, so that they might begin to see that others matter, too.

CCM: How did the tour with your sister, Priscilla Shirer, come about?
AE: We’ve done some events together through LifeWay over the last several years-or-so, but when War Room and FerVent came out, I was like, “Why don’t we just go and try this?” At first wee were like, “Let’s go out for a week and try some,” and it worked. So we added 12, then 16, and then yesterday we added 24 dates. Sherman James Productions is [producing the tour]. Those are my grandfathers on both sides and their decisions are why our family has turned out the way that it has, so when I stand on stage it is all because of Sherman and James and my grandmothers. My sister says, “There is something intangible about the family dynamic on the stage.” She understood what I was trying to do. It’s an honor to be able to do this with family.

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