Deidra Riggs: The Year of Dismantling (from the archives)

For Black History Month, we are going back through the archives and listening to the voices of some of the incredible Black Women who have been on the show.

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The Year of Dismantling: Eliminating Systems that Marginalize & Oppress with Deidra Riggs first aired in January 2021.

In December 2020, Deidra Riggs posted a video on her instagram saying we are going to start 2021 strong: "This is the year we eliminate systems, theologies, practices, and traditions in the church that marginalize and disqualify people who are different from us."

It was at that moment that I knew we needed to have her on the Lady Preacher podcast. Deidra is preaching a message we all need to hear, and you can hear her passion seeping through her voice.

The church, which is supposed to be a place where all become one has for far too long been a place that has left people out - that has pushed them to the margins and closed the door. It has invalidated, humiliated, and disqualified anyone who doesn't fit the norm. But, as Deidra reminds us, that's not who God calls us to be. The "church" as an institution is far different than the "Church" that Christ envisioned. This is the year, Deidra says, that we eliminate all those ways that the institution has choked out the Gospel.

Join us. Then after you listen, share this episode with everyone you know because it's a message everyone needs to hear.

About Deidra (she/her)
Deidra Riggs is an author, speaker, and unashamed disco-lover. She and her husband are the happy inhabitants of an empty nest in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Deidra has authored two books: One: Unity in a Divided Worldand Every Little Thing: Making a World of Difference Right Where You Are. 

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