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
Episodes
19 episodes
Welcome is in the DNA
In the third installment of the conversation between Darnell and Thomas, Darnell talks about the welcoming nature of Coat of Colours and how seeking “to decrease the cultural divide and increase a multicultural presence” is defining the group. ...
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19:22
Why This Church
In part two of the conversation between Darnell and the podcast producer Thomas, we discover why it is that Thomas and Kasandra wanted to be a part of a predominately LGBTQIA+ church and how they got to Cathedral of Hope. They talk about ...
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18:45
Do I Have Something to Say?
In part one of this conversation, we turn the microphone around on the producer of the podcast. Coat of Colours member Darnell sits down with Thomas to ask about what he’s seen and heard from the interviews so far and what he sees as a straight...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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18:43
Episode 16 - Juneteenth Message with Rev. Andria
To open this edition of Putting on a Coat of Colours, we wanted to let you know that we are in the process of producing new content and we hope to drop new episodes beginning next week. But in the meantime, we wanted to offer this piec...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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19:36
Episode 15 - Upcoming Book Study
Please join facilitators Kassie Riggs and Pat Saxon this summer to engage in reflection and discussion of This Here Flesh, a stunning book by Cole Arthur Riley, writer and creator of the website Black Liturgies. The group will meet on ...
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4:32
Episode 14 - The Water We Swim In
For this third episode with Pam, Pat, and Roger, we hear them discuss how being a part of Coat of Colours has given them a nearer understanding of the day-to-day and system issues that their Black siblings experience. Even as they start to part...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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16:09
Episode 13 - Timid Worker Bees
In this second part of the white ally round table with Pam, Pat, and Roger, they talk about the value of being a part of Coat of Colours. For these three, belonging was initially an exercise of “being in the background” and “being more of a lis...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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12:08
Episode 12 - Belonging and Proximity
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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20:05
Episode 11 - Home
In our fourth segment of the podcast conversation with Julie and Kasandra, they share the importance of civic engagement and voting when it comes to women’s reproductive justice, the curtailment of voting rights, and issues around race and gay ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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15:48
Episode 10 - Allies
In the third part of the podcast conversation between Julie and Kasandra, Julie asks Kasandra what she thinks it means to be a LGBTQIA+ ally. Kasandra talks about her non-binary stepchild, being a straight ally in a predominately gay church, an...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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13:58
Episode 9 - Book Knowledge
In this second part of the podcast conversation between Julie and Kasandra, Julie shares some of her takeaways from their book study about the book I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown an...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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12:21
Episode 8 - I'm Still Here
In the first section of this podcast conversation between Julie and Kasandra, we learn how each one of them first came to Cathedral of Hope and how they met and became friends in a Small Group at Cathedral. It was because of that friendship tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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14:08
Episode 7 - See Me
In this third part of the conversation between Stella and Johann, mother and child talk about how families come to terms with finding out their child is gay. For Johann’s parents, they came to love and accept gay persons long before he was born...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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11:41
Episode 6 - No Longer Included
The second part of the conversation between Stella and Johann, Johann digs deeper into how intimidating it can be for a young black gay man to integrate to a mostly middle age white community of gay men and women, many of whom had to endure the...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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12:27
Episode 5 - Stella Finds a Church for Her Gay Son
In this first part of the conversation between Stella and Johann, we find out how a mother’s desire to find a church home was motivated by her concern that she could find a place where her gay son would feel accepted. Her chance conversation wi...
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8:28
Episode 4 - White Spaces
In the book I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown begins the book with the words “White people can be exhausting”. In the fourth part of the conversation, Neil and Darnell share toge...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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9:45
Episode 3 - How Did Neil Get Here
In part three of the conversation between Darnell and Neil, Neil tells the story of how he came from Bournemouth, England and the Metropolitan Community Church to Dallas, Texas and the United Church of Christ. Neil talks about how he uses his o...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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13:10
Episode 2 - Coat of Colours and the Inclusion of People of Color
The second part of the conversation between Darnell and Neil, they dig deep about the goals and purposes of Coat of Colours and the representation of people of color in all aspects of the life of the church. They address the issues of avoiding ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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16:47
Episode 1 - Why Darnell Came to Cathedral and Why He Came Back
In this first part of the conversation, we hear from Darnell, a leader in the Coat of Colours council and Neil, Senior Pastor of Cathedral of Hope. Darnell tells the story of what first brought him to Cathedral and the longing of needing a chur...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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9:48