The Pre-Work Our Bible App
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Over the next 8 episodes you will listen in on candid talks with movers and shakers, folks who have committed their lives to seeing racial and queer equity become. These conversations are hosted and led by Melvin Bray, Emmy® award-winning storyteller, and author of ”BETTER: Waking Up to Who We Could Be.” Our panelists include Cedric Harmon, Executive Director of Many Voices; Dr. Sharon Groves Vice-President for Partner Engagement at Auburn Seminary who’s program Being in Relationship is making social justice waves around the US; Tori Williams Douglas, writer, speaker, educator and the creator of White Homework; AND Sterling Freeman, a Co-Founder and Principal with CounterPart Consulting, LLC; and guide Crystal Cheatham, creator and founder of Our Bible App.
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The Wisdom & The Work: Are You Listening?
Host Sterling Freeman invites Sabrina Slade and Kellan Moore into the studio to discuss their unique approach to race in America. As friends and colleagues, they share their passion for turning traditional philanthropy on its head. You can find out more about Sterling Freeman’s Counterpart Consulting, Sabrina Slade, Kellan Moore, and Crystal Cheatham’s Our Bible App at TheWisdomandtheWork.com.
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Presenting The Wisdom And The Work: Season 2
Hi all! If you loved "The Pre-Work," we are delighted to announce that Season Two of "The Wisdom And The Work" begins on January 6th, 2023. The Wisdom & The Work is a podcast that emphasizes the value of privileging the wisdom of Black, Indigenous, People of Color and challenging white people to step up and do the work, in order to move towards racial justice. The Wisdom & The Work is more than a learning experience. It is affirmation and encouragement for those committed to the fight for racial justice. Catch up on Season 1 at www.thewisdomandthework.com and look for Season 2 wherever you get your podcasts.
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LGBTQ Equity 4: The Truth Sets Us Free
As you gain knowledge around gender and sexual orientation, the hope is you will live respectfully—in mutuality and joy—with and among people who fall all along the sexual orientation and gender continuum. With the guidance of Melvin Bray the three panelists Sharon Groves, Cedric Harmon and Crystal Cheatham discuss our capacity for affirmation and consideration in our relationships.
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Race Equity 4: Claiming and Cultivating Our Healing
With guidance from host Melvin Bray, Sterling Freeman explores rest, respite, and joy as important tools for health and wholeness for BIPOC folks navigating their racialized experiences. Tori Williams Douglas and Sharon Groves explore why whiteness feels the need to police BIPOC joy. Together they offer a healing alternative of forming relationships of accountability as acts of self-love.
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LGBTQ Equity 3: Mars or Venus—Pick a Side!
With the help of host Melvin Bray, Cedric Harmon and Crystal Cheatham address the misconception that gender operates on two poles—male-female, boy-girl—when in reality gender, much like sexual orientation, sits on a spectrum, both at the chromosomal level and the social level. The challenge is that many believe we have to operate at the two poles and therefore don’t enjoy the beauty of the spectrum.
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Race Equity 3: Shopping for New Glasses
Sterling Freeman and Tori Williams-Douglass demonstrate how the simple question, “How is race operating here?” can help you unearth the hidden assumptions, power, and privilege at work in situations that produce persistently inequitable outcomes. Sharon Groves and Melvin Bray introduce the idea of story as a way of improving one's vision.
Customer Reviews
Powerful and Relational
This is a fine podcast. VERY FINE. Cuts through all the noise to embrace a deeply spiritual and justice oriented set of conversations about what dismantling white supremacy is like in the body.