Heretic Happy Hour

Our Conservative Christian Documentary Series continues with our reactions to "The Family" on Netflix.  What does the National Prayer Breakfast have to do with exporting anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to Third World nations? PLUS, our Heretic of the Week is Janet K. Ray, author of "The God of Monkey Science: People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World."Pick up Sitting in the Shade of Another Tree.Check out the QuoirCast network on Patheos.

Our third episode in our conservative Christian documentary series explores the disturbing behavior of Hillsong, with a look at "The Secrets of Hillsong" on HULU. Plus, our Heretic of the Week is the wonderful Maria Francesca French, author of Safer Than the Known Way and Reconfiguring.Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts on Patheos.Keith's latest book, Second Cup with Keith, is now available.

In this episode, the Heretics sit down with award-winning author and artist, Angela Yarber. She's the Executive Director of the Holy Women Icons Project, a non-profit seeking to empower marginalized women by telling the stories of revolutionary holy women through art, writing, and special events. Her painting, writing, and work has been featured on NPR's Progressive Spirit, Maya Angelou's memorial celebration, and the television show Tiny House Nation. She's the author of seven books - four included in the Top LGBTQ Christian books of their respective publication years. Check out Angela's art here.Tune in to all the QuoirCast Podcasts!

Our new "Too Fab For Florida" series celebrates the gifts and wisdom of people in the queer, trans and drag community as a counter-narrative to the relentless assault on their community.This week continues with Sister Merry Peter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences. Tune in to all QuoirCast podcasts at Patheos.Check out the latest interfaith book from Quoir, Sitting in the Shade of Another Tree.

Our new "Too Fab For Florida" series celebrates the gifts and wisdom of people in the queer, trans and drag community as a counter-narrative to the relentless assault on their community.This week continues with Lady Karley Dada Marx, an American drag performer, painter, and pop artist. They are from Chicago, Illinois. Marx's drag persona and name are a play-off of Karl Marx, Marxistaesthetics, the intersections in critical and queer theory, and deeply political-Dadaist influences. To listen to all the QuoirCast podcasts, head on over to Patheos.To support Heretic Happy Hour on Patreon, click here!

Our new "Too Fab For Florida" series celebrates the gifts and wisdom of people in the queer, trans and drag community as a counter-narrative to the relentless assault on their community. To kick things off, our resident expert for this conversation is Daniel M. Lavery, author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You, he also wrote the "Dear Prudence" advice column at Slate.com from 2016 to 2021. Daniel also hosts the Slate podcast, Big Mood, Little Mood for Slate.com, and writes The Chatner newsletter on Substack.Daniel's Links:BOOK: https://a.co/d/23KbTUDPODCAST: https://slate.com/podcasts/big-mood-little-moodTHE CHATNER NEWSLETTER: https://www.thechatner.com/Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts at: https://www.patheos.com/editorial/podcasts

Our second episode in our conservative Christian documentary series explores the profound weirdness and creepy cult behaviors exposed in the SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE documentary. PLUS,  our Heretic of the Week is the amazing Karen Shock, author of TOO MUCH AND NOT ENOUGH.Tune in to all the QuoirCast Podcasts at Patheos.com

Religious scholar Bart Ehrman challenges traditional interpretations of the book of Revelation, revealing its violent portrayal of God. The podcast discusses the negative consequences of the futuristic view of prophecy and Christian Zionism, along with the scandal of Jerry Falwell Jr. and the hypocrisy of destructive figures. It explores the history of the religious right, from their focus on segregation to their targeting of the LGBTQ community and abortion.

Our Bible Bonus Tracks series wraps up with the lesser known "Acts of Paul and Thecla" - an apocryphal religious romance of the Apostle Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. New Testament scholar, Anna Rebecca Solevag, walks us through this obscure, but endlessly fascinating, early Christian text.To listen to all the other QuoirCast podcasts, head over to quoir.comTo purchase Kevin Sweeney's book, click here!

Our Bible Bonus Tracks series continues with The Gospel of Thomas - the lost text that contains the sayings of Jesus as recorded by his disciples which was buried around the 4th century and only recently uncovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Our resident expert, professor Melissa Harl Sellew, Th.D, from the University of Minnesota, is our HOTW and our guide through this fascinating text.Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts at Patheos.