The Breathing Room Podcast
Hi everybody and welcome to The Breathing Room. This is a space where people of color and faith can come together to have our lived experiences acknowledged, witness each other's journeys, and take a collective deep breath. Join Kevin Holland and others each week as we explore what being a person of color in a multi-cultural American Christian church has been and is like. These conversations will touch on the spiritual, relational, and socio-political realities that influence us and our faith communities. The goal of this podcast is that fewer of us will feel alone and unseen and that more of our stories will be understood, valued, and championed. This conversation might also help us move from awareness to action in promoting justice as Jesus and the prophets of old did. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. Isaiah 1:17 (NLT)
The Breathing Room Podcast
You Can Believe Your Eyes. The Verdict, Aftermath, & Where We Are One Year After We Lost George Floyd.
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Kevin Holland
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Season 1
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Episode 4
I uploaded this podcast on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. It was exactly one year to the day when the entire world watched a white police officer murder an unarmed black man in broad daylight. The officer was convicted of two counts of murder and one of manslaughter last month. That notwithstanding, anger, pain, despair, trauma, and exhaustion in the lives of people of color remain. What did we do with all of it? Acknowledging and voicing it are good places to start.