Family Ties - The Frank and Faridah Show

About Family Ties - The Frank and Faridah Show

This podcast is about family life as a means to address current problems in American society. A scripture based African American perspective. Welcome to The Family Ties, a Prescription for Society. Through this experience we invite you to join us in an exploration of the concept of family ties as a prescription for society. YOUR HOSTS: Frank Abdul Shaheed & Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown

Publisher

Frank Abdul Shaheed & Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2024

Latest episode

15 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Jul 2026

   S2-EP34 - The Global Family Footprint

   Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown and Frank Abdul Shaheed introduce a 3rd episode to a new season of The Family Ties, framing the show as a prescription for healing the human family through a covenantal relationship with God, rooted in the African American experience of chattel slavery and the creation of culture from “essence” rather than inherited traditions. They discuss how obedience, spirituals, blues, and jazz expressed humanity and helped shape America, which they describe as the “final conve...

2. 

   8 Jul 2026

   S2-EP33 - Concern for the Family of Man Pt2

   Family Ties: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going—Stewardship, Sacred Knowledge, and Finding Your Voice Co-hosts Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown and Frank Abdul Shaheed open a new season of The Family Ties by reflecting on over 30 (Actually 31) prior episodes about the family as a necessary institution for human flourishing, then shifting to “where we’re going” amid 21st-century challenges for the human family. Faridah recaps taking their teenage daughters with relatives to Senegal so they could s...

3. 

   8 Apr 2026

   S2-EP32 - Concern for the Family of Man Pt1

   Co-hosts Faridah Abdul-Tawwab Brown and Frank Abdul Shaheed return after about a year to launch a new season of The Family Ties Show: A Prescription for Society, thanking listeners and explaining their hiatus, including Frank’s emergency surgery that temporarily affected his speech and required rehabilitation. They frame the family as an instrument and “pair” that supports society and extend this to the “human family,” arguing that global and local events are interconnected and should be eval...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

54

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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