“Expanding the Table” Podcast
GCORR’s Award-Winning Podcast on Practicing Anti-Racism
Season 2, Episode 5: Growing Intercultural Competency Through Travel
In this episode, GCORR staff discuss how travel can develop the skill of intercultural competency.
Our staff members on this episode are:
Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo, General Secretary
Paris Davis-Reed, Executive Assistant to the General Secretary
Rev. Enger Muteteke, Senior Director of Programs and Education Strategies
Jeehye Kim Pak, Senior Director of Communications and Marketing
Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo
Paris Davis-Reed
Rev. Enger Muteteke
Jeehye Kim Pak
Season 2, Episode 4: When Food Is Love
In this episode, GCORR staff discuss the important role food plays in different cultures.
Our staff members on this episode are:
Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo, General Secretary
Paris Davis-Reed, Executive Assistant to the General Secretary
Rev. Enger Muteteke, Senior Director of Programs and Education Strategies
Jeehye Kim Pak, Senior Director of Communications and Marketing
Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo
Paris Davis-Reed
Rev. Enger Muteteke
Jeehye Kim Pak
Season 2, Episode 3: What is the “What Is?” series?
In this episode, GCORR staff discuss the agency's newest resource series: "What Is?"
Our staff members on this episode are:
M. Garlinda Burton, Director of Resource Development
Elaine Moy, Senior Director of Finance, Development, and Institutional Equity
Rev. Enger Muteteke, Senior Director of Programs and Education Strategies
Jeehye Kim Pak, Senior Director of Communications and Marketing
M. Garlinda Burton
Elaine Moy
Rev. Enger Muteteke
Jeehye Kim Pak
Season 2, Episode 2: Raising Antiracist Kids
In this episode, GCORR staff discuss how they impart antiracist values and practices on to their kids. Our staff members on this episode are:
Rev. Enger Muteteke, Senior Director of Programs and Education Strategies
Jeehye Kim Pak, Senior Director of Communications and Marketing
Matt Upshaw, Associate Specialist for Communications and Marketing
Christina Yates, Associate Specialist of Finance & Administration
Rev. Enger Muteteke
Jeehye Kim Pak
Matt Upshaw
Christina Yates
Season 2, Episode 1: Exploring Our Immigrant Identities
In this episode, GCORR staff members discuss their immigrant identities and experiences through the lens of New Year traditions. Our staff members on this episode are:
Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo, General Secretary
Elaine Moy, Senior Director of Finance, Development, and Institutional Equity
Rev. Enger Muteteke, Senior Director of Programs and Education Strategies
Jeehye Kim Pak, Senior Director of Communications and Marketing
Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo
Elaine Moy
Rev. Enger Muteteke
Jeehye Kim Pak
“Expanding the Table” Podcast - Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Racism, Police Reform, and Faith
*This episode was awarded 3rd place in the podcast category by the United Methodist Association of Communicators in 2022.
Rev. Jeremy Wicks
Rev. Kirk Lyons of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Rev. Jeremy Wicks of Traverse City, Mich. are United Methodist pastors who are leading community-wide conversations and demonstrations that call attention to implicit and explicit racial bias experienced by Black and Brown people at the hands of police officers. Both are bringing together church, community, and law-enforcement members to seek solutions.
Lyons and Wicks talk about their work as an outgrowth of their understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and offer ideas for how Christian communities may learn more and get involved in local police reform and anti-racism efforts.
Rev. Kirk Lyons
Season 1, Episode 2: Theologians Explore the Roots of Anti-Asian Racism and What the Church Should Know
Three Asian-American Christian theologians examine the history and current realities of anti-Asian racism in the United States and what every Christians should know and do.
Our guests:
The Rev. Dr. Mai-Anh Le Tran, vice president for academic affairs, academic dean, and associate professor of religious education and practical theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill.,
The Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kuan, president and professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, Calif., and
The Rev Dr. Boyung Lee, senior vice president of academic affairs, dean of the faculty, and professor of practical theology at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colo.
Rev. Dr. Mai-Anh Le Tran
Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Kuan
Rev Dr. Boyung Lee
Season 1, Episode 3: Mapping Prejudice: Racist Land Covenants and How One Church Responded
Emmy Award-Winning Producer and Director Daniel Pierce Bergin ("Jim Crow of the North"), Dr. Kirsten Delegard (Director and Cofounder of the Mapping Prejudice Project), and The Rev. Lisa Friedman (author and Developmental Minister at Universalist Church of Minnetonka) discuss racist US-based land covenants and how one church is taking action to confront this form of institutional racism.
Daniel Pierce Bergin
Dr. Kirsten Delegard
Rev. Lisa Friedman
Season 1, Episode 4: Robin DiAngelo Discusses "Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm"
Robin DiAngelo, PhD
On this episode of “Expanding the Table” we talk with sociologist, educator, and best-selling author, Robin DiAngelo, about her new book, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. Dr. DiAngelo, author of the book, White Fragility, discusses how well-intended white allies for racial justice can and should step up the work of confronting and correcting their own complicity in systemic racism. DiAngelo is an affiliate associate professor at the University of Washington.
Resources recommended by Dr. DiAngelo:
“103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice,” by Corinne Shutack, in Medium.com, Aug. 13, 2017, issue.
Anderson, Carol. White Rage. The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury Adult Press, 2017.
Eddo-Lodge. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Generic Press, 2018.
Jones, Robert P., White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Moore, Eddie Jr., Marguerite W. Penick-Parks., et al., Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories. Stylus Publishing, 2015.
Saad F. Layla and Robin DiAngelo. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor (book and guided journal by the same name). Sourcebooks, 2020.
Season 1, Episode 5: Moving Your Church from Book Studies to Anti-Racist Actions
*This episode was awarded 1st place in the podcast category by the United Methodist Association of Communicators in 2022.
In this episode, we ask three clergypersons leading mostly white and racially diverse congregations how they are moving from first awareness and books studies about racism to putting Christian anti-racism into action in their congregations and our communities.
Joining us for this conversation are:
The Rev. J.P. Hong, lead pastor of Christ Crossman United Methodist Church in Falls Church, Virginia
The Rev. Sallie Suby-Long, minister for healing and wellness and director of the Center for Spiritual Engagement at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Denver, Colorado
The Rev. Dr. Stephen Handy, senior pastor of McKendree United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. J.P. Hong
Rev. Dr. Sallie Suby-Long, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Stephen Handy
Season 1, Episode 6: How White Christians Should Confront Racist Histories: A Conversation with Robert P. Jones
In this episode, our guest Robert P. Jones joins us to discuss his book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.
Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won the 2021 American Book Award. He is also the author of The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion and has written for or been interviewed by CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Robert earned a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University in Atlanta.
Jones writes weekly at https://robertpjones.substack.com, a newsletter for those dedicated to the work of truth-telling, repair, and recovery from the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.
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