Episodes

Feb. 13, 2019

#84- Parenting Unfundamentalist, w/ Cindy Brandt

Cindy didn't grow up in a religious household, but did attend a school for missionary kids in Taiwan where she converted, and spent most of her formative years in fundamentalist Evangelicalism. And then her faith shifted and…
Feb. 6, 2019

#83: Coming Out Later In Life (and all that shit), w/ Matt Nightingale

Matt Nightingale is an educator, musician, speaker, writer and spiritual director living and working in the North San Francisco Bay Area. He is a teacher at Sonoma County Day School in Santa Rosa and the worship leader at Th…
Jan. 30, 2019

#82: Live from QCF! Part 2, w/ GUNGOR

You know that feel when your favorite people are also incredibly gifted humans and they also happen to be ur frandzzz? That's who Lisa and Michael Gungor are to me. So weird. So lovely. So perfectly human. We talk about ever…
Jan. 25, 2019

#81: LIVE from QCF! Pt. 1 feat. The Best Humans

This is part 1 of my LIVE show at QCF this past Jan. In this episode we are just cutting up and having fun. We start off with never have i ever and the evolve into advice, talking about jealousy, art, race. It's good stuff …
Dec. 31, 2018

#80: Making Sex Shameless, w/ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a writer, speaker, pastor, and all around bad ass woman. A critically acclaimed, NYT best selling author and founder of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, she's in the midst of releasing her …
Dec. 19, 2018

#79: Losing My Religion, w/ Melissa Greene

Melissa Greene is a creative, a musician, a spiritual leader, and one dope ass human living in Nashville and helping lead a community named Imaginarium. In this conversation, we dive into what life is like in post-Christian …
Dec. 5, 2018

#78: Jared Byas is Gonna Fix my Life

Jared Byas of The Bible for Normal People joins me today to basically fix my life because obviously my ass needs it. ... Connect with Jared across social media @JByas, at JByas.com and listen to his podcast with Pete Enns, T…
Nov. 28, 2018

#77: Confessions of a Funeral Director, w/ Caleb Wilde

DEATH AND SEX AND EUCHARIST! Like... does it get any better? Caleb Wilde is a fifth-generation funeral director who has the freshest take on death I have ever encountered. Literally, this is one of my favorite conversations…
Nov. 14, 2018

#76: An Evolving Faith, w/Jennifer Knapp

Jennifer Knapp is a Grammy-nominated artist, writer, speaker, activist, and all-around badass woman. She was CCM royalty for 5ever before her hiatus and then her eventual coming out (before it was cool to be a queer Christia…
Nov. 10, 2018

#75 Boy Erased, w/ Garrard Conley

Garrard Conley is the author of the best selling book, Boy Erased, now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage, and Troye Sivan among others. I connected with Garrard a few years ago, and we talked about …
Oct. 12, 2018

#74: Is Jesus Cool with Polyamory?w/Brian G. Murphy

Polyamory and non-monogamy is a conversation that isn't happening in Christian circles and is seen by many as taboo. But it's a conversation we desperately need. Brian G. Murphy of QueerTheology.com joins me today to talk ab…
Oct. 3, 2018

#73: To Shake the Sleeping Self, w/ Jedidiah Jenkins

Jedidiah Jenkins was living a life he didn't want, and so on his 30th bday, he quit his job, hopped on a bike and road it from Oregon to Patagonia on a 16-month, 13,000 mile journey that would change everything. In this podc…
Sept. 26, 2018

#72: Femme, w/Corey Camperchioli

Corey Camperchioli is an actor, writer, and self identitfied femme living in NYC. He's currently making the rounds with his short film, "FEMME," and y'all... he's amazing. Just a peach. In this conversation we talk about que…
Sept. 13, 2018

#71: On Changing the World, w/ Matthias Roberts

Y'all... Matthias Roberts, in addition to being an incredible writer, podcaster, speaker, therapist, and all around good human, is one of my dear friends. Creatively he's been a co-conspirator. Socially, he's been a solid ro…
Sept. 5, 2018

#70: Pastor & Survivor, w/ Chrissie Reeves-Pendergrass

Trigger warning: This episode contains conversation focusing on sexual assault and rape in Christian contexts. Listener discretion is advised. ... Chrisie Reeves-Pendergrass is a pastor, mom, wife, and advocate for sexual as…
Aug. 22, 2018

#69: Translations & Homosexuals, w/Kathy Baldock

Kathy Baldock is a speaker, educator, mother, and fierce advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in the Church. Her book, "Walking the Bridgeless Canyon" has walked many through the intersecting social, political, and religious history…
Aug. 15, 2018

#68: Queerness + Mental Health, w/ Cassie McCarty Green

I've said it once, I'll say it a billion times over, mental health is sexy. Today, therapist Cassie McCarty Green joins me to share her story of how she came to work exclusively with LGBTQ clients, the growth she's seen from…
Aug. 8, 2018

#67: Joel Hollier is such a Fucking Christian

Y'all for real, there are moments when I realize when like... folks are a better Christian than me, not that it's a game to win, but seriously... Joel is such a fucking Christian in the best way possible. He was a pastor for…
July 26, 2018

#66- Brit Barron: Recovering Mega Church Pastor

Let's go to church y'all. Brit Barron is a pastor, a spiritual director, a speaker, and a recovering mega church pastor. She spends her time exploring what it looks like to reclaim Christianity as a queer woman of color. And…
July 11, 2018

#65: Outside The Lines w/Mihee Kim-Kort

Mihee Kim-Kort is a pastor, a mother, a wife to a wonderful man, and she's queer. And she didn't discover this till later in life. In her new book, Outside the Lines: how embracing queerness can transform your faith, Mihee d…
June 27, 2018

#64: Jen Hatmaker is Totes an 8

If you don't know who Jen Hatmaker is... honestly, you might not be frequenting Christian subculture, which is fine! But! Jen is a writer, author, pastor, speaker, and all around dope woman of God who is navigating her way t…
June 18, 2018

#63: Reclaiming My Worship, w/ SueAnn Shiah

My first return guest ever! SueAnn is back to talk about her new album, "A Liturgy for the Preservation of the Saints," which drops June 22. We talk about reclaiming our worship, about gendered language in worship songs, abo…
June 13, 2018

#62: Undivided, w/ Vicky Beeching

Vicky Beeching is a writer, speaker, and LGBTQ equality campaigner based in London. After a career as a very well known Christian worship leader, her career in the evangelical church was stripped from her when she came out a…
June 11, 2018

#61: On White Cis Gay Dudes, w/ Garrett Schlichte

Like most of my fantastic online relationships, Garrett and I have never met IRL. It's the perfect millennial relationship. We see each other on the twitters, we write stuff, we both a queer and Christian, and we both can ho…