Putting on a Coat of Colours
This is the podcast Putting on a Coat of Colours. This podcast is a Community Storytelling project of Coat of Colours, a council of Cathedral of Hope, United Church of Christ, in Dallas, TX. Our hope is that this podcast will make room for persons of color and their white allies, who are both gay and straight…•To tell of their joys and frustrations•To tell of their sense of belonging and their sense of exclusion•To celebrate our uniqueness to the larger community and celebrate our commonalities•To invite members of the larger community to join in this purpose
Putting on a Coat of Colours
Episode 12 - Belonging and Proximity
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Thomas Riggs
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Season 1
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Episode 12
This is the first section of a podcast conversation between Pam, Pat, and Roger, three white allies who have been long time members of Coat of Colours. Their journeys to Cathedral of Hope came from different directions. There’s common themes of seeking a place where they could belong, needing a community steeped in activism, looking for genuine expressions of faith, and finding that CoH is unlike any place they had been.
On this 5th anniversary of Coat of Colours, each one also talks about how they came to participate in a group that they initially believed might be a space for Black people only. Each one came to realize that it was in proximity where relationship can be built.