A Different Kind of Coaching Program Most people will tell you that you should have various mentors to fill different roles in your professional and personal life. But if you are a Black Indigenous People of Color, you need at least one BIPOC mentor. Black Indigenous People of Color have particular career challenges in the […]
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The Poor People’s Campaign
In the context of the most divided nation since the 1960’s millions of Americans came together online for The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington. Join host, Lisa Sharon Harper, in conversation with three leading voices of The Poor People’s Campaign: Rev. Liz Theoharis (Co-Chair), Yara Allen (Director of Theomusicology) and Callie […]
Disability and its Intersections with Everything
In this raw, honest, beautiful episode host, Lisa Sharon Harper, is joined by three guests, all of whom have intersections with the issue of disability. Shannon Dingle, Lisa Anderson, Amy Kenny and Lisa engage a rare kind of conversation–the kind that changes them in rare time, as we listen in. See the world through the eyes of these three […]
Who will carry the role of the prophet?
I used to think I was a prophet. Not someone who predicted the future, but as my Christian faith explained it—someone who sees and speaks truth. My mentors and Christian leaders around me affirmed it. Sometimes people would say, “I don’t like that truth,” but no one said, “What you are saying isn’t truth.” My […]
LGBTQ+ Inclusion and Exclusion in the Church
Much like the issue of slavery in the early 19th century, the issue of LGBTQ inclusion is splitting denominations across the United States. On opposite sides of the fault-line are those calling for inclusion and those engaging processes and crafting policies that exclude LGBTQ+ people from various levels of membership and leadership. Churches usually avoid […]