248 - Be the Bridge's Sixth Birthday: A Conversation on the BTB Impact - Local Church

Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison

Be the Bridge

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It is important in this bridge-building work to be reminded of the good being done on a local level. So for this episode, guest host Dr. Will Gravely is joined by three women who are leading and reproducing Be the Bridge groups through their local church. Lisa Miller, Beth Yokley, and Rikeesha Phelon share their individual and collective experiences engaged in this work. This look into their connections and conversations from their Be the Bridge groups is hopeful for us all and will be helpful for anyone wanting to begin their own local group. They share the important aspects of creating groups that are psychologically safe spaces for people of color, that see this work as part of discipleship, and that know the cost is worth it.

Host & Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Senior Producer - Lauren C. Brown
Producer, Editor, & Music - Travon Potts
Transcriber - Sarah Connatser

Quotes:
“It is so important, not just for people of color and white people who are geared toward justice, but I think the work of anti-racism and Be the Bridge is part of discipleship, and it's part of how we mirror Christ-like behavior to the world.” -Rikeesha Phelon

“We have got to, as brothers and sisters in Christ, be able to have difficult conversations because we're united by the love of Jesus. If we can't have these conversations, who can?” -Beth Yokley

“It's important that Christians have this conversation because of that command of love, but also because we're all created in God's image. Imago Dei. And if we believe that then we need to act like that.” -Lisa Miller

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Guest Host:
Dr. Will Gravely

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Not all views expressed in this interview reflect the values and beliefs of Latasha Morrison or the Be the Bridge organization.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Be The Bridge podcast with Latasha Morrison.
0:06.0	What are you guys doing today?
0:09.0	Each week, Be The Bridge podcast tackles subjects related to race and culture with the goal of bringing understanding.
0:16.9	But I'm going to do it in the spirit of love.
0:19.4	We believe understanding can move us toward racial healing, racial equity, and racial unity.
0:25.0	Latasha Morrison is the founder of Be the Bridge,
0:27.8	which is an organization responding to racial brokenness and systemic injustice in our world.
0:34.0	This podcast is an extension of our vision to make sure people are no longer conditioned by a racialized society but grounded in truth.
0:42.1	If you have not hit the subscribe button, please do so now. Without further ado, let's begin today's
0:47.8	podcast. Oh, and stick around for some important information at the end. Welcome to our Be the Bridge family.
0:55.9	I am your guest host, Dr. Will Gravely, and I have the honor of serving as a board member
1:00.4	of Be the Bridge, and I am in place of our amazing founder, Latasha Morrison.
1:06.3	And so we are celebrating our six-year anniversary, and what better way than to get some real
1:12.9	life story of transformation and participation on the ground and this incredible work of bridge
1:19.2	building.
1:20.2	And so we are talking to some incredible women from Hope Church.
1:25.6	And we would love to open this up by just getting a picture of how you all
1:30.8	connected with Be the Bridge. What did that beginning portion of the story look like?
1:36.6	Sure. In 2016, Latasha spoke at if gathering, and we were in attendance, and it stirred me. For the previous
1:48.6	year, I had been struggling with lots of feelings and thoughts. I grew up in Ferguson, Missouri,
1:55.8	and so when Michael Brown was murdered in August of 2014, things stirred inside me. I didn't understand,
2:05.5	right? Like, I was, I doubted it. I, this isn't where I grew up, right? I kept repeating that.
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