Freedom Road Podcast
86 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsThis podcast is a forum for experiences that build common understanding, common commitment and common action. It is produced each month by FreedomRoad.us, and hosted by Lisa Sharon Harper.
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Where Do We Go From Here? Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King's final book with Dr. Drew Hart
February 01, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutesThe world recently watched white nationalists scale the walls of the US Capitol Building to attempt an insurrection; killing 6 people, including 3 police officers. The world watched as 147 GOP members of Congress affirmed the lie that fueled the insurrection. The world watched as scores of GOP Senators voted not to even hear the evidence against the one man most responsible for the violence and the lies. Where do we go from here? Writing months before his passing, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,...
Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
January 01, 2021 06:00 - 1 hourIn the final dark days of 2020, six presidents of Southern Baptist Seminaries issued publicly condemned Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality; forbidding the subjects from being taught at their institutions. Join host Lisa Sharon Harper on Freedom Road with special guests: Dr. Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro (Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality scholar), Marlena Graves (evangelical scholar and activist), Dr. Drew Hart (professor of Theology, Race and Justice), Dr. Dennis Edwards (Pastor...
Without Oars with Wes Granberg-Michaelson
December 03, 2020 18:00 - 1 hourCast out in a boat without oars with host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and special guest, Wes Granberg Michaelson, author of Without Oars: Casting Off Into a Life of Pilgrimage. In our post-Trump America it is clear that white Americans are experiencing a major shake-up—especially white men. Something more is needed to address the questions of the white soul. Wes’s new book, Without Oars, might just point the way toward the transformation we need to embrace a new future for our nation and for the Chu...
Brian McLaren: On White Men—After Trump
November 11, 2020 00:47 - 1 hourBrian McLaren (author, speaker, activist) thinks outside of the box. He’s a true prophet who decodes the current moment and casts vision for what’s coming. Join host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Brian McLaren as they dive deep on the state of white men in the post-Trump era--and what spiritual re-formation will require of them in this shifting age.
National Town Hall on Evangelical Faith and Politics
October 22, 2020 17:14 - 59 minutesThis fall Evangelicals launched an honest, raw conversation about our values for integrity and leadership. We decided this conversation was too good and the stakes are too high not to share with our podcast audience! We asked this core question: In our churches, are the principles of our faith guiding our politics? OR Is our politics guiding our principles? Join Lisa Sharon Harper as she hosts Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra (Assistant Professor, Fuller Seminary), Kyle J. Howard (Theologian and ...
Public Safety Town Hall: Dreaming Another Way
August 31, 2020 20:48 - 1 hourInterfaith leaders came together in the wake of the death of Mr. George Floyd by officers who knelt on his neck and body as he pled with them, “I can’t breathe!” In the weeks before and since Mr. Floyd’s death, multiple other black men, women and children have been killed by police. Listen as 14 of the most prolific and prophetic faith leaders in our nation engage the National Town Hall on Policing and Law Enforcement. Featuring: Host, Lisa Sharon Harper, Freedom Road Rabbi Sharon Brous, IK...
The Poor People's Campaign
July 18, 2020 21:33 - 1 hourIn 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 Greer (Impacted Anti-Poverty Activist). Three powerful women of the Campaign give us the story behind the story of Poverty in America.
Disability and its Intersections with Everything
June 17, 2020 18:19 - 1 hourIn 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 disabled women. Be inspired and be changed forever.
LGBTQ+ Inclusion and Exclusion in the Church
May 06, 2020 14:59 - 1 hourMuch 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 this conversation, because the stakes are so high and the outcomes so painful. This month Freedom Road Podcast, Activist Theology Podcast ...
Whiteness and Womanhood with Pantsuit Politics
April 07, 2020 04:24 - 1 hourJoin host, Lisa Sharon Harper, in conversation with the women of the Pantsuit Politics Podcast, Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland. On this collaborative extended episode, released on both platforms, listen in as Lisa, Beth and Sarah talk COVID-19, sci-fi movies, canaries in mines and wrestle over one hard question: What will alliance with women of color require of White women in 2020? Be prepared to hear all of the things that need to be said. The times we are living in require it.
It’s Time to Talk about Abortion and Reproductive Justice
March 06, 2020 18:29 - 1 hourThe issue of abortion has the level of power it does in our nation because we never talk about it. So, we’re going to talk about it. Listen in as host, Lisa Sharon Harper, is joined by Rev. Susan Chorley (Exhale), Rev. Shekinah Hamlin (Christian Church Disciples of Christ) and Andrea Lucado (evangelical journalist) to talk about Abortion and Reproductive Justice. This is a #mustlisten conversation.
Otis Moss III: The Power of Pilgrimage and Legacy
February 07, 2020 02:41 - 1 hourListen in on this powerful conversation between Lisa Sharon Harper (host) and Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III (Lead Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ). The two dive deep on the power of pilgrimage and legacy. As the son of a Civil Rights hero, Moss shares how pilgrimage helped him understand his father better and himself as a man of African descent in the US.
Power and Solidarity
January 12, 2020 23:57 - 57 minutesJoin host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and guest Belinda Bauman as they go off-script and dig deep in this vulnerable and raw conversation about the relationship between power and solidarity. #silenceisnotspiritual #solidaritysunday
Larycia Hawkins and Linda Midgett: Embodied Solidarity and #SameGodFilm
December 05, 2019 23:54 - 1 hourAdvent is about God's embodied solidarity with humanity. In December 2015 Dr. Larycia Hawkins, political science prof at Wheaton College in Illinois placed a hijab on her head, took a picture and posted a message on Facebook in solidarity with Muslim women who were being targeted and forced to take off their hijabs in public spaces within democracies around the world. Standing in embodied solidarity with Muslim women as her Advent practice, Dr. Hawkins lost her job and became the target of wh...
Ruth Ana Buffalo and the Stories the Land Tells
November 14, 2019 22:15 - 58 minutesThis month on Freedom Road Podcast join host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and special guest State Representative Ruth Anna Buffalo--the first Native American woman Democrat elected to North Dakota's State Assembly. In honor of Native American History Month, the two recount stories from their recent pilgrimage through the stories of Buffalo's people, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation on the Fort Berthold Reservation. They consider the stories the land tells about historic and current violence and...
#1619FamilyFaithFuture
October 11, 2019 20:14 - 1 hour2019 marked the 400th year since Africans first stepped foot on North American shores. Antony and Isabela (their given slave names) were brought from Angola aboard a Portuguese slave ship bound for Mexico. The White Lion, an English warship, pirated the Portuguese ship and stole its human cargo. The first “20 and odd” Africans brought to this land in chains stepped off the White Lion in the year of our Lord 1619. Antony and Isabela were among them. They were traded for food by residents of J...
On Freedom Road: The Fruits of U.S. Exploitation of Immigrant Labor - Migrant Workers and Detention
August 06, 2019 19:43 - 1 hourIn this second episode of the Freedom Road Podcast two-part series on Immigration, Exploitation and Labor in the U.S. join host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and company as they travel from The Alamo to the Borderlands; shining light on America's labor system--a system perpetually dependent on the no-cost and low-cost labor of black and brown immigrant labor.
On Freedom Road: The Roots of U.S. Exploitation of Immigrant Labor - Slavery and Peonage
July 03, 2019 14:41 - 1 hourOver the next two episodes pilgrimage with us on Freedom Road Podcast as we stand on the land where whips cracked backs to bleed more work from black and brown bodies. Stand with us in a literal valley of dry bones—a mass grave filled with the bodies of men and boys swept up in the post-antebellum terror of peonage. Sit with us as we speak with a descendant of America’s Bracero program and faith leaders pushing back against the exploitation of asylum seekers in America’s detention system toda...
#AddictionNation
June 03, 2019 16:23 - 1 hourJoin host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Timothy McMahan King (author of Addiction Nation, slated for release June 11) for a profound conversation about King's battle with addiction and what it taught him about the soul of America. This is a #mustlisten, #musttakenotes, then #mustshare episode.
#ChurchClarity
May 08, 2019 16:12 - 1 hourThroughout the 19th century nearly every protestant denomination in the U.S. split over disagreements on the institution of slavery. Not since then have we witnessed such tectonic fissures in the body of Christ. In the 21st century, the issue is LGBTQ inclusion. Nearly every denomination in the U.S. has or is experiencing the tension. In this moment of profound division many churches are tempted to obscure their views and policies in an effort to hold divided parties together. The creators of...
#1903 - Ruby Sales: Lessons from the Southern Freedom Movement for Right Now
April 02, 2019 22:21 - 58 minutesMomma Ruby Sales is back. As the nation commemorates the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and the invaluable contributions of the Civil Rights Movement, listen in and grab your pen and paper to take notes as Ruby Sales (SNCC activist and celebrated theologian) shares the pearls of wisdom she gleaned from the Southern Freedom Movement.
HER-stories from the #RubyWooPilgrimage
March 05, 2019 02:03 - 1 hourThis month on Freedom Road, Lisa Sharon Harper, celebrates Women’s History Month with four women of the Ruby Woo Pilgrimage! Listen in as Meighan Stone (Council on Foreign Relations, Indivisible and former president of The Malala Fund), Andrea Ackerman and Melissa O’Keefe (Christ City Church DC) and Barbara Noe Kennedy (Travel Writer) reflect on the wisdom they gleaned from our nation’s foremothers‘ intersectional struggle for equality. This isn’t just history. This is straight up wisdom for ...
Ruby Sales BONUS - #BlacknessandHistory
March 04, 2019 20:42 - 15 minutesPeek behind the scenes of our #BlacknessandHistory episode with Ruby Sales (SNCC, SpiritHouse Project) with this bonus mini-episode! Listen in as Auntie Ruby and, host, Lisa Sharon Harper, rap the session. Their taped conversation was so electric that it kept going after the mics were turned off--only they weren't turned off! Sound engineer, David Dault, who also joins the conversation, captured lightening in a bottle.
#1901 - Blackness and History
February 05, 2019 17:05 - 1 hourHave you ever had one of those moments when it feels like everyone that experienced it just lived for a split second in another realm? We have. While recording this episode. This conversation on #BlacknessandHistory between host, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Civil Rights Movement veteran, Ruby Nell Sales (SNCC organizer, celebrated theologian and founder of The SpiritHouse Project), hits new levels of deep within the first few minutes—and they keep drilling down. More than an interview, this is ...
#1812 - Justice Agenda 2019
January 08, 2019 05:49 - 1 hourJoin host, Lisa Sharon Harper, in this mind-blowing conversation with East Harlem pastor and author Jose Humphreys, indigenous scholar Dr. Randy Woodley, South African activist Rene' August and white Evangelical consultant Alexei Laushkin. Run and get pen and paper and #takenotes as these four Freedom Road Consultants consider the nature of justice, what justice will require of the church and share their #JusticeAgenda2019!
#1811 - The Power of Art
December 04, 2018 00:05 - 1 hourHost 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
November 06, 2018 06:33 - 50 minutesWhat 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
October 09, 2018 20:55 - 1 hourJoin 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
September 01, 2018 18:12 - 1 hourGuests 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
August 06, 2018 15:11 - 57 minutesLisa 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
July 01, 2018 17:01 - 1 hourThis 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 #BeingL...
#1805 - Black Girl Magic
June 01, 2018 23:52 - 1 hourThis 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
May 01, 2018 20:07 - 1 hourThis 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
April 02, 2018 15:15 - 55 minutesIn 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). #FreedomRoadPodcast
#1802 - Immigration, DACA, and the Dreamers
March 01, 2018 19:48 - 1 hourOur 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
#1801 - #MeToo, #ChurchToo, #SilenceIsNotSpiritual
February 01, 2018 21:54 - 1 hourLisa Sharon Harper welcomes LaShawn Warren of Center for American Progress, Nikki Toyama-Szeto of Evangelicals for Social Action, and Belinda Bauman of Together International and One million Thumbprints, to speak about #MeToo and #SilenceIsNotSpiritual