Queer Theology
Queer Theology / Brian G. Murphy & Shannon T.L. Kearns
The longest running podcast for and by LGBTQ Christians and other queer people of faith and spiritual seeker. Hosted by Fr. Shannon TL Kearns, a transgender Christian priest and Brian G. Murphy, a bisexual polyamorous Jew. and now in its 10th year, the Queer Theology Podcast shares deep insights and practical tools for building a thriving spiritual life on your own terms. Explore the archives for a queer perspective on hundreds of Bible passages as well as dozens of interviews with respected LGBTQ leaders (and a few cis, straight folks too). Join tens of thousands of listeners from around the world for the Bible, every week, queered.
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Sep 1, 2015 • 0sec
Who Do You Favor? // James 2:1-5
This week’s lectionary passage sounds like it could have been written yesterday. With problems of favoritism still popping up in our churches and political movements, how do we move forward? In this week’s podcast Brian and Fr. Shay talk about respectability, favoritism, and more.
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Aug 26, 2015 • 0sec
Does Queer Sex Make You Unclean? – Mark 7:1-8,14-15, 21-23
What makes someone unclean? How does this passage about food relate to queer sex? Brian and Fr. Shay talk about being clean and what makes something clean or unclean.
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Aug 18, 2015 • 0sec
Does this offend you? – John 6:60-69
Jesus gets a little snarky in this week’s Gospel reading and Brian and Fr. Shay respond. What happens when Jesus makes demands of the people following him? What does that have to do with us today? In this podcast we talk about solidarity, living on the margins, and more.
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Aug 11, 2015 • 0sec
Wisdom is a Woman – Proverbs 9:1-6
Why does it matter that Wisdom is personified as a woman? What can we learn from this passage? Who have been the people who have spoken wisdom into your life? Brian and Fr. Shay talk about all of this and more.
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Aug 4, 2015 • 0sec
It’s Okay to Not be Okay – 1 Kings 19:4-8
In this week’s passage Brian and Fr. Shay talk about admitting that you’re not okay and what it means to take care of yourself. What does self care look like? What are the messages we’ve been taught in our churches about mental health and depression? All that and more in this week’s podcast.
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Jul 28, 2015 • 0sec
Use Your Gifts – Ephesians 4:1-16
What have you been taught about the things you like to do? About the ways to stand up for justice? Have you been discouraged or feeling like you have to be someone you are not? Then this is the podcast for you. Brian and Fr. Shay talk about using your gifts and doing what you love.
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Jul 23, 2015 • 0sec
Queering Theology
Why did we choose to focus on the lectionary for the podcast? What does it mean to queer the lectionary? How does the work of queering texts impact our daily lives? In this week’s podcast we take a meta look at why.
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Jul 14, 2015 • 0sec
With His Body – Ephesians 2:11-22
In this week’s podcast Brian and Fr. Shay talk about the resonance of the phrase “with his body he broke down the barrier of the hatred that divided us.” Why does this phrase have so much meaning? What does it mean to break down the barriers with our bodies? Listen in now!
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Jul 8, 2015 • 0sec
I Am Not A Prophet – Amos 7:12-15
This week Brian and Fr. Shay tackle a short (and rather random) passage from the book of Amos. What does Amos’s response to being called a prophet have to teach us today? What does it mean to be a prophet in our own communities? All this and more on this week’s podcast.
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Checkout the episode on another passage from Amos
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Jun 30, 2015 • 0sec
Shake It Off, Shake It Off – Mark 6:1-13
In this week’s lectionary text, Jesus gives his followers explicit instructions on what to do if they are not welcome in a place. What might the LGBTQ community learn from those instructions? Brian and Fr. Shay talk about welcome, inclusion, being unwanted, and more in this podcast.
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