Claiming Space, Disrupting Structures: Communities of Resistance & Social Determinants of Health
Progressive Faith Sermons - Dr. Roger Ray
English - January 22, 2023 12:00 - 16 minutes - 13.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 140 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality ray roger affirming and christian christianity church community liberal open Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Last week, the completely terrifying and avoidable tragedy of Larry Eugene Price’s 2021 death in an Arkansas jail came to light. As shocking as his story is, the painful reality is that we have managed to create a society where these kinds of tragedies happen with horrific regularity. The settings change: prisons, hospitals, schools, workplaces, religious institutions, homes. The relationships between the inequities and oppressive systems shift emphasis: race, gender, class and poverty, disability, age, sexuality, and more. And each person’s story is unique, but these experiences also form a pattern. Understanding those patterns, and transforming them into action, is the continual responsibility for all communities of resistance, so that everyone can have a chance to recover wholeness and health.