{"product_id":"healing-racism-with-a-community-of-allies-with-catherine-meeks-ph-d","title":"Healing Racism with a Community of Allies with Catherine Meeks, Ph.D.","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMP3 Download\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;\"\u003eHere we explore how racial healing becomes a lived spiritual practice instead of an abstract ideal. It is grounded in courageous truth-telling and compassionate listening across the deep lines of race, history, and identity. Theologian and contemplative teacher Dr. Catherine Meeks draws from her childhood as a Black sharecropper’s daughter in the Jim Crow South and from decades of civil rights and coalition-building work. She weaves autobiography with incisive analysis of systemic racism, scarcity, and structural injustice, inviting listeners into inner reflection alongside collective transformation. Emphasizing that \u003ci\u003e“leaning across the bridge of our differences” \u003c\/i\u003eis an ongoing discipline rather than a slogan, Meeks highlights the intersections of race, gender, class, and spirituality, and the crucial role of white allies and faith communities. She challenges the tendency to compete over which group is most oppressed—what she calls the \u003ci\u003e“oppression Olympics”\u003c\/i\u003e—and instead points toward a more unified, liberatory vision of justice. Throughout, Meeks models a fierce, faith-rooted commitment to those on the margins and offers a compassionate yet unsentimental path for confronting our deepest divides.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;\"\u003e(hosted by Justine Willis Toms)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eBio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eCatherine Meeks, Ph.D. is a theologian, educator, and activist whose work weaves together racial healing, spirituality, and socio-cultural analysis. She is the founding Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta, where she helped create “brave space” for honest conversations, formation, and training around racism, reconciliation, and healing across the Episcopal Church and beyond. She is the founder of Turquoise and Lavender, an institute for transformation and healing and was awarded the President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award for her decades of work for racial justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eCatherine Meeks many books include:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eLiving Into God’s Dream: Dismantling Racism in America \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e(Morehouse Publishing 2016)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003ePassionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e, (Nibs Stroupe) (Church Publishing 2019)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eA Quilted Life: Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e(Eerdmans 2024)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThe Night Is Long But Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e(Morehouse Publishing 2025)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eBridging the Rivers of Difference: A Proclamation of Unity in Resistance \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e(Morehouse Publishing 2026)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eTo learn more about the work of Catherine Meeks go to: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.turquoiseandlavender.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttps:\/\/www.turquoiseandlavender.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003eTopics explored in this dialogue include:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHow racial healing is spiritual practice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHow systemic racism and structural scarcity perpetuate social injustice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eGrowing up Black under Jim Crow and sharecropping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHow race, gender, class, and faith intersect\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHow inner contemplation can lead to collective transformation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHow coalitions of allies can lead to a true liberation of marginalized peoples\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; 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