Melissa Lex

Be The Bridge 101- Training Christians to Decenter Whiteness

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 36 Latasha Morrison made the New York Times Best Seller list for her book Be The Bridge. While the book informs Christians of the importance of racial reconciliation, it’s also the gateway into her training program/ministry of the same name. To become a Bridge Builder, we are told to follow…

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Be The Bridge: Training Christians to Become Anti-Racists

Exposing how Be The Bridge’s trains Christians to become Ant-Racists. Be The Bridge teaches its Bridge Builders to believe that God reflects certain aspects of His image in ethnicities; perpetuating a belief that its members need to adopt collective practices to sanctify them and teach them to be color brave and not color blind. Topics…

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Be The Bridge: Training Christians to go Woke

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 34 Exposing how Be The Bridge presupposes the postmodern theory of Intersectionality and trains people up in the ministry to identify racism through historical narratives and the stand points of POC. Topics: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality What is Intersectionality? What is Post-modern Theory? What is Standpoint Epistemology? How is…

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Be the Bridge, Critical Race Theory, & White Supremacy

Thoroughly Equipped Season 2 Episode 33 Exposing how the American Christian Church is accepting the tenants of Critical Race Theory through Be the Bridge’s ministry on racial reconciliation. This “ministry” trains people to believe that racism is systemic and white people are complicit and/or are racist by perpetuating the system because they do not act…

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Critical Race Theory as an Analytical Tool?

Thoroughly Equipped S.2 Ep.32 What is Critical Race Theory? What does it teach? Should Critical Race Theory be used as an analytical tool? And is this theory something you should worry about? In this episode I interview Andrew Rappaport from the Rapp Report to tackle these questions. Before we dive into the Be the Bridge…

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