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Queer Theology Podcast
The longest running podcast for and by LGBTQ Christians and other queer people of faith and spiritual seekers. 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 and spiritual traditions as well as dozens of…
Episodes
Queer Theology PodcastChrist the King
This Sunday is "Christ the King" Sunday or "Reign of Christ" Sunday, depending on your church, and in today's episode, we are talking about the "king" and…
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2018
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a week away and in this podcast episode, we focus on three areas for LGBTQ Christians and straight, cisgender supporters (and…
Queer Theology PodcastYour identity matters - Jeremiah 31:7-9
This passage reminds us that God has a particular care for people who are marginalized, vulnerable, disenfranchised, and oppressed. In this episode we dig into…
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Seduction - Ruth 3:1-5, 4:13-17
This passage is a sultry seduction and we do scripture a disservice when we try to "clean it up" and make it chaste. But it's not necessarily fun and carefree…
Queer Theology PodcastMaking Meaning - Job 38:1-7, 34-38
This episode is for the lectionary from October 21 — after recording this episode, Brian had a death in the family and was unable to publish it on schedule but…
Queer Theology PodcastDeuteronomy 6:1-9 & Mark 12:28-34
In these two passages, we see that the "Old Testament God" and the "New Testament God" are one and the same. In Mark, Jesus is in conversation with his sacred…
Queer Theology PodcastHow do we relate to God? - Hebrews 4:12-16
Referenced in this episode: Polyamory & Christianity webinar happening this Sunday, October 14! Register at queertheology.com/polyamory How to read the Bible…
Queer Theology PodcastGenesis 2:18-24
We've look at this text a few times before (here, here, and embedded below). This week, we look at this section of the creation narrative and focus in on a few…
Queer Theology PodcastBiblical Allyship - Mark 9:38-50
Mark 9:38-50 John said to Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone throwing demons out in your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn't following us." Jesus…
Queer Theology PodcastQueer Sacred Spaces: Ours & Yours
In this week's episode, we take a break a from the lectionary to talk about queer sacred sites. A few weeks ago, Brian released a video about his experience on…
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Words Matter - James 3:1-12
Don't write off this passage as being another silly, outdated exhortation to simply "not say bad words." Rather, it's an important reminder that words matter…
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Immigrants are healed & Jesus changes his mind - Mark 7:24-37
Mark 7:24-37 Jesus left that place and went into the region of Tyre. He didn't want anyone to know that he had entered a house, but he couldn't hide. In fact…
Queer Theology PodcastDoes this offend you? John 6:60-69 #throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastWisdom is a Woman – Proverbs 9:1-6 #throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastIt's Okay to Not be Okay - 1 Kings 19:4-8 #throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastUse Your Gifts – Ephesians 4:1-16 #throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastDo the Easy Thing – 2 Kings 5:1-15 #throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastWith His Body – Ephesians 2:11-22 #throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastI Am Not A Prophet – Amos 7:12-15 #Throwback
We're on summer vacation! The Queer Theology podcast has been "on air" for 4 years and over 200 episodes. All summer long, we're releasing a throwback episode…
Queer Theology PodcastBringing About The Kingdom: Mark 4:26-34
This week, we're featuring another throwback episode. Today's episode originally aired in 2015. What do the parables of Jesus about the Kingdom of God have to…
Queer Theology PodcastEven When Your Family Doesn't Get It: Mark 3:20-35 - Throwback
Our second-ever throwback episode... this time as a 2nd, bonus episode for the week. This episode originally aired in 2015. If you enjoy the podcast, you can…
Queer Theology PodcastWhen liberation turns into oppression - 1 Samuel 8
This story is about a marginalized group of people finding a bit of liberation, then seeking to recreate some of the very systems they escaped, and in the…
Queer Theology PodcastChristians & LGBT people carry death in our bodies - 2 Corinthians 4:5-12
LGBTQ people are intimately with pain, suffering, trauma, and death; it's part of our collective history and for many of us, it's part of our personal history…
Queer Theology PodcastHow to enter the Kingdom of God - John 3:1-17
This passage starts off talking about being born again" … what does that mean? And why must one be "born again" in order to enter the Kingdom of God? And what…
Queer Theology PodcastBodies Matter – Ezekiel 37:1-14 - #Throwback
We're trying something new with the Queer Theology Lectionary Podcast... our first ever throwback episode. We first released this episode on Ezekiel 4 years…
Queer Theology PodcastThe Truly Happy Person - Psalm 1
What does it take to be a happy person and lead a righteous life? We think there's more than meets the eye when it comes to this psalm. Psalm 1 The truly happy…
Queer Theology PodcastDivine Revelation & Respectability Politics - Acts 10
Peter has a vision and realizes that the lines he drew around what was clean and unclean, pure and impure, in and out, needed to move. We see this again and…
Queer Theology PodcastSomething new is happening here - Acts 8:26 - 40
It's easy to think of Christian doctrine as eternal and unchanging, but we see throughout Scripture that our understanding of God, our relationship to the…
Queer Theology PodcastThis is his commandment... - 1 John 3:16-24
In this episode, we take a look at what it means to be a follower of Jesus, as told by 1 John. The text tells us to love with action, not words. What does that…
Queer Theology PodcastFaith into praxis, politics into activism
In this episode, we reflect on what we've learned from 2 months of looking at the politics of Jesus and look ahead to what we'll be focusing on next: activism…
Queer Theology PodcastHow to handle tough feelings on your faith journey
When talking about deeply held religious beliefs, it's only human for all sorts of emotions to dust up. If we're going to grow as Christians and live into a…
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Crucify him! - Mark 15:1-15
Too often, government protects the already-powerful, rather than the vulnerable who need protection. This week, we take a look at the trial of Jesus and…
Queer Theology Podcast"They tried to bury us..." - John 12:20-33
Here are some highlights from this week's episode: "They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds." - poet Dinos Christianopoulos When you do what is…
Queer Theology PodcastThe Politics of Jesus
The personal is political and everything is religious. In this episode, we begin to tease out the political implications of our spiritual conversions to…
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Collaborating with the empire - John 2:13-22
In this episode, we look at the story of Jesus turning over tables in the temple, as told by John. Why did he do this, who exactly was he protesting, and what…
Queer Theology PodcastWhat will you give in exchange for your life? - Mark 8:31-38
This week, we tease out the tension between "living a good Christian life" as has been come to be defined by the white, straight, conservative status quo and…
Queer Theology PodcastFiguring out your relationship with God - Mark 1:9-15
In Mark's gospel, Jesus gets his understanding of himself and his mission confirmed by God... and then forced out into the wilderness. He is baptized into a…
Queer Theology PodcastLGBTQ Christians reflect the glory of Jesus Christ - 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
In this episode, we are challenged by 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 to inspect our faith, our lives, our churches, our communities, and our politics to see if it truly…
Queer Theology PodcastWe want to recruit you - 1 Corinthians 9:16-23
Paul is super passionate about spreading the gospel and so are we! Asking what our queerness can teach us about Christianity doesn't taint Christianity, it…
Queer Theology PodcastCommunity Question: How do you make spiritual resolutions?
Fr. Shay wrote an article about why you should make spiritual resolutions and in this episode of the podcast, we respond to a reader question and dive into how…
Queer Theology PodcastChange your heart & your life - Mark 1:14-20
The Gospel of Mark — the earliest written of the gospels — jumps right into the action with the arrest of John the Baptist and the start of Jesus's public…
Queer Theology PodcastYou knit me together - Psalm 139
Brian and Fr. Shay experience this passage in two different ways — and that's ok! For some, this passage is comforting and for others this is creepy and…
Queer Theology PodcastNew Year, New You
Happy New Year from Fr. Shay and Brian! In this week's episode, we're talking all about the start of the year and how to enter it with intention without…
Queer Theology PodcastMary's understanding of God - Luke 1:47-55
This week's passage is part of Mary's Magnificat — a badass hymn that shows how she understands God. Already, before Jesus is even born, we see the seeds of…
Queer Theology PodcastThis is God's good news - Isaiah 61:1-4
This passage from Isaiah will become the opening thesis of Jesus's ministry (as told in Luke 4). In it, we get a sense of God's priorities (and what will…
Queer Theology PodcastJohn the Baptist & Building on Queer Activism - Mark 1:1-8
The Gospel of Mark opens with a political statement and goes on to connect the ministry of Jesus to work that has come before. In this week's podcast, we…
Queer Theology PodcastYour oppression is not your fault - Isaiah 64:1-9
We hold a few things in tension with this passage: the beauty of the poetry, the devastation of their situation; our identification with suffering, our…
Queer Theology PodcastMatthew 25:31-46
This passage in Matthew has some pretty harsh words about God separating out the sheep from the goats, and damning the latter to eternal fire. But who exactly…
Queer Theology PodcastListener Questions: How do you know it's to be transgender?
This week, we take a look at a few listener questions about the intersections of transgender identity and Christian faith. Do you have a question you'd like to…
Queer Theology PodcastFaith & Justice - Amos 5:18-24
This passage from Amos is one of Brian's all-time favorites. The prophet has some harsh words for religious festivals in the absence of justice and that's a…
Queer Theology PodcastTransgender & Christian 2017
This month we're focusing on trans issues at Queer Theology. In this week's episode, we talk about why that's important.