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)
Episodes
11 episodes
Promote Justice – Be an Antiracist
At some point, we all arrive at the proverbial fork in the road. Which route will we choose? Will we play it safe or take a risk? Will we dig our heels in or embrace a new way of thinking and acting? As season one of this podcast comes to a clo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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30:05
Don't Look Away: Say Something and Do Something
We’ve all been in those situations when we couldn't believe that someone actually did what we saw them do or say what we heard them say. There is a movement afoot in our country that revels in saying the quiet part out loud, deliberately making...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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23:54
Shooting the Messengers: What’s Behind the Demonization of Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory?
Sometimes we learn the most about others or ourselves from how we respond to events we didn’t see coming. What’s beneath the surface can seep or burst through our filters. We can leak. In many instances, we’re not even aware of our own pre-cond...
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Season 19
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Episode 9
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28:50
Processing the Joy and Sorrow of Juneteenth, the Proximity of Slavery, and the Rise of Jim Crow 2.0
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 pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:55
"Tim Scott Says ‘America Is Not a Racist Country’ – The Data Says Otherwise"
From the founding of our nation until now, there’s been an open question of who we are as a country. Whose country is it? To whom does it belong? Which people make up the “real America?” Who is wanted and welcomed and who is “othered” and...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:51
Tulsa Wasn’t Alone: How 60 Years of Racial Violence in the 19th & 20th Centuries Led to the Disparity, Injustice, and Inequity We Still See Today in the 21st
A recent Washington Post article was entitled “Tulsa isn’t the only race massacre you were never taught in school. Here are others.” The number of race massacres and hate crimes that occurred in the late 19th century and early 20th century bogg...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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27:11
The Tulsa Race Massacre & What It Teaches Us About Our Racial Reckoning Today
100 years ago this past Monday and Wednesday, a white mob massacred hundreds of black grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, babies, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and cousins in Tulsa Oklahoma. This act of white suprem...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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30:10
You Can Believe Your Eyes. The Verdict, Aftermath, & Where We Are One Year After We Lost George Floyd.
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 o...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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23:33
If You Didn't See It Coming, You Weren't Paying Attention; The Insurrection and the Normalizing of Trauma.
“The attacks on the US capitol on January 6th, 2021 will have ripple effects for years to come. We’re no longer in the September 11th era. We’re now in the January 6th era.” ― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent War...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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23:59
"Every Word Has Consequences. Every Silence, Too."
I have said things in the past that I wish I could take back. I bet you have too. Jesus’ brother James told us that taming the tongue is easier said than done. We’ve learned that words have consequences. In this episode, I want to look more clo...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:04