203 - What Can Solidarity Look Like Among People of Color? (Part 1) with Lisa Sharon Harper
Be the Bridge Podcast
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4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Be the Bridge podcast, founder Latasha Morrison and public theologian Lisa Sharon Harper discuss the implications of America’s historical narrative gap, Lisa’s journey to discover the stories of her ancestors, and how we can build bridges from our nation’s past to become more present.
“Scripture itself, particularly the biblical concept of shalom, is not about domination but rather about servanthood of the other—service, protection, and cultivation of all.” –Lisa Sharon Harper
“Race as a construct was created to determine one thing on this land that we call America: Who has the divine call and the capacity to exercise dominion on this land.” –Lisa Sharon Harper
“In order to understand where we are today, we have to look at where we were yesterday.” –Latasha Morrison
About Lisa
Lisa Sharon Harper is the founder and president of Freedom Road, a groundbreaking consulting group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitments that lead to common action toward a more just world. Lisa is a public theologian whose writing, speaking, activism and training has sparked and fed the fires of re-formation in the church from Ferguson and Charlottesville to South Africa, Brazil, Australia and Ireland. Lisa’s book, The Very Good Gospel was named 2016 “Book of the Year” and the Huffington Post identified Lisa as one of 50 Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Be the Bridge podcast with Latasha Morrison. |
| 0:11.6 | I cannot believe this. |
| 0:13.6 | We have the one and only Mrs. Lisa Sharon Harper. |
| 0:20.0 | Although I like to call her Auntie Lisa. |
| 0:24.4 | How you doing? |
| 0:25.3 | Oh, that's so much better. |
| 0:26.6 | Actually, let me to say, |
| 0:28.1 | unless I got married to Jesus recently, |
| 0:30.1 | I'm a Ms. |
| 0:33.1 | I mean, |
| 0:33.8 | I kind of married Jesus back when I jumped the broom with him, you know, when I was... |
| 0:39.3 | But, you know, I'm a miss. |
| 0:42.6 | Yes. |
| 0:43.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.9 | I thank you. |
| 0:44.5 | I love it. |
| 0:45.1 | Auntie Lisa, I love that. |
| 0:46.6 | I love that. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, you know, that's how we do, you know. |
| 0:50.1 | But I just want to tell you guys a little bit about who Lisa Sharon Harper is. |
| 0:56.0 | She is the founder and president of Freedom Road. |
| 0:59.0 | And this is a groundbreaking consultant group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitments that lead to common action toward a more just world. |
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