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#1809 - The Pain of the Patriarchy

Release Date: 10/09/2018

Freedom Road Podcast

Host Lisa Sharon Harper welcomes guests Waltrina Middleton, Amena Brown, and Catherine Sherman to discuss how art and justice can work together

#1810 - The Call to Lament and Repent

Freedom Road Podcast

What responsibility does the church (particularly the Evangelical church) bare for the state of US public life? In this episode Lisa Sharon Harper sits down for a timely reunion with her coauthors of the book, Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith. Join Lisa as she explores the possibility of national healing through the lament and repentance of the church with guests Soong-Chan Rah, Mae Cannon, Troy Jackson.

#1809 - The Pain of the Patriarchy

Freedom Road Podcast

Join us as Lisa Sharon Harper digs deep into the Pain of Patriarchy with Susan Sharkey (visual artist, #metoo⁠ ⁠/church abuse survivor) and Emily Joy (poet and co-creator of #Churchtoo).

#1808 - #SCOTUSpick - Voting Rights and the Supreme Court

Freedom Road Podcast

Guests Rev. Dr. William Barber and Anisha Singh join host Lisa Sharon Harper to discuss the troubled history of Supreme Court nominations and their effects on the last half century of American struggles for justice.

#1807 - #BlackMensMagic

Freedom Road Podcast

Lisa Sharon Harper talks #BlackMensMagic with prolific theologian and ethicist, Dr. Reggie Williams (author of Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus). Listen in as Harper and Williams talk Black Panther, Black men fathering Black boys--and girls, decolonizing theological education and who we really are! Grab your pen and paper. You will definitely want to take notes. And this one is one to share and talk about with your friends and communities.

#1806 - Being Latina

Freedom Road Podcast

This month on Freedom Road, in the long shadow of heinous immigration policy, we are taking a breath and hitting pause on the cray-cray to celebrate the magic, the wisdom and the strength of Latina dragon-slayers! Come listen in as fierce theologian Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, organizer Alexia Salvatierra, community developer Lisa Trevino Cumins and advocate Jessica Cobian share with host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and all of us what they have learned about the world and how to thrive in it by #BeingLatina!

#1805 - Black Girl Magic

Freedom Road Podcast

This month listen in and "Listen up!" as Lisa Sharon Harper offers this extended convo on #BlackGirlMagic! Rev. Traci Blackmon, United Church of Church Executive Minister of Justice and Local Ministries; Rev. Leslie Copeland-Tune, Director of Ecumenical Advocacy Days; and Rev. Sekinah Hamlin, Director of Faith Affairs at the Center for Responsible Lending join the panel.

#1804 - Poverty is Personal

Freedom Road Podcast

This month host Lisa Sharon Harper is joined by guests, Ciara Taylor (Dream Defenders and The Poor People's Campaign), Sister Simone Campbell (Network Lobby), and Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith (Bread for the World). Four diverse women shine light on this thing we call poverty. Listen as they share their own connections to poverty and wrestle with critical questions: What is poverty? What are its roots in the U.S.? Who is impacted? And how do we end it?

#1803 - MLK50 and Lessons from The Movement

Freedom Road Podcast

In Episode 3, host Lisa Sharon Harper mines stories and lessons from and for The Movement from very special guests, Rev. C.T. Vivian (Lieutenant of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, JR who coordinated The Civil Rights Movement nationwide) and Sam Fulwood III (Columnist at ThinkProgress at Center for American Progress).

#1802 - Immigration, DACA, and the Dreamers

Freedom Road Podcast

Our host Lisa Sharon Harper welcomes Philip Wolgin of Center for American Progress, Jenny Yang of World Relief, and Gabriel Salguero of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, to discuss the current crisis in US immigration policy

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This FreedomRoadPodcast was already scheduled to tape on the same day Senate Judiciary Committee ordered the FBI Background Check into allegations brought against then Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the process of discerning how the Senate would Advise and offer Consent for the President to confirm his nomination. The pre-determined theme for our conversation was "The Pain of Patriarchy." When we began the taping, the Judiciary Committee was in discussion about whether they would move the vote to the floor. As we wrapped our taping session we received word that Senator Jeff Flake had recommended the FBI Background Check.

All three women in this taping are survivors of gender based violence and abuse. We make no secret of how we feel about the process. At the point of our conversation the FBI investigation had not even begun. Now, we know the results. Brett Kavanaugh is now Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. According to the facts, the FBI investigation was not complete--limited to 9 witnesses that were not the key witnesses. Neither Kavanaugh, nor Christine Blasey Ford were interviewed, nor were more than 40 other witnesses who stepped forward to corroborate Ms. Ford's and Ms. Ramirez's claims. Still, 50 Senators voted yes, including Senator Susan Collins.

The process that our nation has endured begs us to dig deeper to understand patriarchy, how it works, what it is used to produce in the world, and how and why women still choose to assent to it.

This conversation begins by centering the voices of two survivors so that we might understand on a deeper level the cost of patriarchy to our souls, our families, our churches and our faith. Two compelling guests. Two powerful stories. They are not wrapped up in a bow for easy consumption. Some things will be difficult to hear--especially for leaders in church contexts. But these women are brave in their honesty. They speak truth that is rarely spoken. They deserve to be heard. And what they say deserves to be considered.

Join us as Lisa Sharon Harper digs deep into the Pain of Patriarchy with Susan Sharkey (visual artist, #metoo⁠ ⁠/church abuse survivor) and Emily Joy (poet and co-creator of #Churchtoo).

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