A Bridge to Understanding is a community building podcast featuring two friends with very different backgrounds. This podcast seeks to discuss topics that will lead to a better understanding between people who may look different, think different, or have different access to the American Dream. The show offers to bring light into the dark, and often under-discussed topics that shape the American landscape today.
"Nearly all of us are learning of things we could have never predicted, unless we were the scientists whose voices have all too often not been 'heard.' And so, we understand that whether or not we know what comes next, it does not always prepare us for how we will respond."
With everything going on in the world the Watershed Voice podcast network got a bit neglected in recent weeks but today we'll catch you up on the last three Screen Tea Podcast episodes ahead of Episode 19. So without further adieu, enjoy the witty banter of Lisha and Juliet McCurry.
"As August draws closer, I will continue to let myself dream of my baby and their future. I will continue to sing and read to my baby, and remind them that though this world can be dark and filled with selfish people, it also has real beauty and self-giving people as well. I will continue to pray for the health and safety of my baby and all soon to be mothers across the world who are facing the same challenges, or deeper ones, than I am. As scary as COVID-19 is I refuse to let it destroy the joy of the miracle and mystery that motherhood is."
"Preparing food, to me, is one way that I care for myself: I love the creativity of transforming fresh produce into a delicious meal, as if I were creating a mixed-media art piece. It’s a way of accomplishing one small thing that nourishes and re-energizes me. It’s a way of absorbing and honoring the energy that farmers, farm workers, and gardeners (including myself) have put into growing the food I’m putting into my body."
"How I Came to See Time Differently" is the second installment of a short series exploring how we look at the past, the passage of time, how some times can seem more recent than others, and why it might be useful to think carefully about how we consider what is and what isn’t ancient history.
"I think it is important to support black owned business, especially at a time like this where people are being divided more and more. Supporting black-owned businesses is not reparations, and it is not enough, but it is a small way that an individual can empower less privileged communities and help lift them up from the many systemic ways that they are oppressed."
A poem titled "Learning to Fly" by Nancy A. Boyd.
"America, God is not our scapegoat. God did not create these problems; we did. And whether you are holding up the Bible as a magical talisman or whether you think the president is the Antichrist, God wants no part of our partisan fiddling as the nation literally is burning. In another time of national crisis, President Lincoln once said, 'Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side. My greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.'"
This week on The Unapologetics Podcast, Professor Ashley Mack-Jackson gives some words of wisdom from her experiences and unconditioning story.
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