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
Processing the Joy and Sorrow of Juneteenth, the Proximity of Slavery, and the Rise of Jim Crow 2.0
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Kevin Holland
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Season 1
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Episode 8
We as a society are progressing in some areas and regressing in others. This odd push and pull, this mixture of emotions, the simultaneous holding of desperate thoughts seems to be heightened now as much as ever. In this episode, we begin to process the historic milestone of Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, the painful history that it reminds us of, and the repeating of ugly 20th century history emerging in this 21st year of the 21st-century.