What Our Faith Demands - Rev. Raquel Alston, Rev. Tanya Spencer, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich
What our faith demands. A multi-faith discussion and action plan: the discussion of three faith leaders, two African American Methodists, Rev. Raquel Alston and Rev. Tanya Spencer, and one Jewish rabbi, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, focusing on energizing cross-community partnership and building bridges that lead to community collaboration. Supported in part by a grant from: A More Perfect Union - Jewish Partnership for Democracy https://www.jewishdemocracy.org/
Episodes
A wide-ranging and important conversation this week on What Our Faith Demands. Parallels between worship as minorities in Churches and Synagogues, commitments to self-disrupt, authenticity and insecurity, civility and respect, Exodus consciousness, and avoiding self-enslavement and slavocracy, and so much more, with Rabbi Shais Rishon, Rev. Raquel Alston, Rev. Tanya Spencer, and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich.
Rev. Raquel Alston, Rev. Tanya Spencer, and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, talk about the problems with power, the challenges of polarization and what to do about it, not raising our voices, being present and listening, and so much more. Join us for blessings and a deep dive into What Our Faith Demands.
Burnout, accountability, speaking the truth, and more!
Rev. Raquel Alston, Rev. Tanya Spencer, and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich begin a discussion about how to put "loving our neighbors as ourselves" into action.
Rev. Raquel Alston, Rev. Tanya Spencer, and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich move from the theoretical into the practical as they talk about feeling the love of the Divine, cultivating healthy self-love, and then using that to act on "loving our neighbors as our selves".
A special edition of Building Better Stories including 30 minutes with Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade, and more thoughts about James, by Percival Everett.
Should we teach Huck Finn in schools? This and so much more about the stories we tell and how they help us grapple with the real past, talk about real present challenges, and build a better future together.
Let's move our conversations into public libraries, schools, and college campuses!
Solidarity - an essential aspect of freedom - and what we are to do about it.
Factuality - truth as an essential aspect of freedom.
Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich explore mobility in all its forms and how we are free and hindered because of our access to mobility.
Thanks to Timothy Snyder’s work, “On Freedom” for inspiring this series.
Supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the generosity of the Buffalo History Museum.
Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich discuss where we go on issues of DEI and Affirmative Action, remembering Roy Ayers, and more.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Inspired by Mary Anne Franks' "Fearless Speech" Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, and guests, discuss how free speech and justice form a center in our struggles to make things better for everyone.
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we look at Adam Gopnik's, "A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism".
Let's collaborate in thwarting the historical efforts to prevent American from being a nation with a...
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This episode, we look at John McWhorter's, "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America".
Let's collaborate in thwarting the historical efforts to prevent American from being a nation with a gover...
Minority rule in America - its awful and long history, from the Constitutional Convention, to its harrowing present in State Houses and the Supreme Court - and what to do about it.
Talking about Ari Berman's excellent book: Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It.
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