Welcome!
We’re thrilled to be with you on Freedom Road
Hello and Welcome to Freedom Road’s Substack!
If you received this by email, it is because you previously signed up for notifications on one of our mailing lists. We have consolidated all of our previous lists into this one, our new Freedom Road Substack! If you’re just joining us now, we’re so excited you’re here!
This will be the new home of our newsletter, but also so much more. With this platform, we have the ability to bring you more content that’s easier to access, but without sending you more emails!
Come walk with us on Freedom Road!
We are launching this publication to bring you more stories from Freedom Road, tips from our consultants, and articles from the members of our Global Writers Group. Back in the spring of 2020 as the world shut down, a group of writers began meeting online. Lisa Sharon Harper called each writer to “write a new world into existence.” Now, with the launch of this community, we can talk and share ideas as we walk Freedom Road and bring a new world into existence together.
The Basics
You will continue to receive one or two emails each month with links to content you may have missed in between. If you want to stay up with every article as it’s posted, be sure to download the substack app, where we will also occasionally host subscriber chats about current events and topics of interest.
Most of our content will be free, but if you want to support the ongoing mission of Freedom Road please consider becoming a paid subscriber! As a paid subscriber, you will get access to special behind-the-scenes conversations with Freedom Road Podcast guests--for patrons only!
Are you already a Patreon subscriber? Never fear, you can get access to the paid benefits of our substack when you support us at the James Farmer level and up.
We’re thrilled to be with you on Freedom Road! Please share this email and any articles from our launch with your friends and networks and we will grow alongside each other.
For our launch, we are pleased to share with you the work of:
Deborah Masten: Never Stop Dancing
Dexter Chapin: Reflections in a Mirror
Jaye Darkwater: Euphemia of Khaiterra
Steve Wright: Angel
Terri Fullerton: To Our Daughters, for When I’m Old
Anna Elisabeth Howard: The Invitation
Lisa Sharon Harper: It’s How We Finish
The Narrative Gap, as coined by Lisa Sharon Harper, is the distance between the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, including how we got here and what it will take to make things right. In our world today, competing narratives vie for our loyalty, dividing society and the church, therefore making justice impossible. Our mission is help communities shrink the narrative gap, by identifying core issues and building community capacity so they might work toward common solutions for a just world. Here on the Freedom Road Substack, we can converse together on ways to shrink that narrative gap and help ensure everyones’ stories are told.
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