Resetting The Table Podcast

 Maria   Hey everyone and welcome to resetting the table, expanding imagination around race, place and faith for our collective liberation. Maria   I'm Maria Mulder, Celine   I'm Celine Chuang. Lori   I'm Lori Snyder. Maria   And today Lori is here to talk with us about relating to the land. Thank you so much Laurie for being here. So we always start each episode with a land acknowledgement. But today we would love for you, Lori, to do it for us. Lori   Okay, great, Maria. So I'm here in East Vancouver, what we call East Vancouver on the Tsleil Wathuth, Squamish and Musqueam territories. And in land acknowledgement. What has come for me is to actually bring the voice of the ancestors to the energy of us gathering. And I'd like to share a little quote by Chief Dan George from the Tsleil Wathuth nations. And he's now passed, but he's left some beautiful words for us some stories and movies, and of course, is just his legacy ...

 Trixie   Hey everyone and welcome to resetting the table, expanding imagination around race place and pay for our collective liberation. I'm Trixie Ling. Celine   I'm Celine Chuang, Maria   and I'm Maria Mulder, we host this podcast from unceded musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Wahtuth territory, otherwise known as Vancouver, Canada. Acknowledging the land is one way we want to commit to decolonization, and to begin each episode in a good way, expressing solidarity with the indigenous struggle for rights, reparations and sovereignty. Trixie   Today, we're talking about unlearning white Jesus. What are our own experience of white Jesus? And what baggage and connotations does white Jesus carry? And how can we unlearning white Jesus and expanding our imagination around depicting God further the journey of our faith and justice? These are some of the questions we will be wrestling with in this conversation. So join us and let's get into it. Celine...

CELINE: Hey listeners, Celine here. We want to echo the voices of BIPOC, especially on black and native Twitter, who pointed out the obscene contrast in policing and recall the militarized crackdown on Black Lives Matter protesters and native land defenders. We've posted some practices on our Instagram that have helped us stay grounded. And here are some of them. Light a candle, call in sick, connect with your people, disengage from online spaces, go for a walk, create a moment of stillness. Deep breaths. Foregrounding black folks is integral to anti-racism. Because to paraphrase civil rights warrior, Fannie Lou Hamer, when black people get free and black women get free, everybody gets free. onwards. CELINE: Hey everyone and welcome to resetting the table, expanding imagination around race, place and faith for our collective liberation. I'm Celina Chuang.  MARIA: I'm Maria Mulder TRIXIE: And I'm Trixie Ling. We are hosting this podcast from the traditional ancestral and...