Episodes
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Creative Wells and Getting Bored
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
The good news: my partner and I are buying a house this week, and soon I will have a brand new studio space.
The bad news: I'm way behind on the show because of the move.
Instead of a Sacred Tension episode, here is an interview I did with Matt Langston of Eventylife. We talk about creativity, love, coming of age as a queer person, and much more.
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Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Odin Meets Jesus
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
In this episode of Sacred Tension, Kodiak joins us once again to explain his sudden and unexpected conversion from Odinism to Christianity.
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Monday Jan 01, 2018
Is Youth With a Mission a Cult?
Monday Jan 01, 2018
Monday Jan 01, 2018
In this episode of Sacred Tension, Scientology survivor Chris Shelton comes back onto the show to help me figure out if Youth With a Mission (YWAM) is a destructive cult. Youth With a Mission is one of the largest Christian mission organizations in the world, and I was a member for two painful years. In the process we talk about the marks of a destructive cult, trance states, the ubiquity of destructive ideas, and gay conversion therepy.
Monday Dec 25, 2017
A Queer Catholic Pentecostal Christmas
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Monday Dec 25, 2017
Merry Christmas! In this episode of Sacred Tension, we give you company during this miserable holiday by discussing Catholicism, the child sex abuse scandal, pentecostalism, and equality for LGBT people and women in the church.
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Being Queer in Christian School, Pt. 2
Monday Dec 18, 2017
Monday Dec 18, 2017
In part two of my conversation with drag queen Ida Carolina, we discuss what it was like being queer in Christian college. We explore the difficulties of navigating sexual orientation in a hostile environment, the survival skills we developed, and respectability politics.
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Gay Celibacy
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Monday Nov 27, 2017
In this episode of Sacred Tension, I discuss the harms of mandatory gay celibacy with blogger Patrick Gothman. Patrick shares what it was like growing up gay in the Catholic church, how he came to believe God requires him to be celibate for the rest of his life, and how and why he eventually walked away from that conviction.
Monday Oct 30, 2017
The Nashville Statement, Pt 4
Monday Oct 30, 2017
Monday Oct 30, 2017
In this final installment of the Nashville Statement series, Matt and I deliriously wrap up our discussion. We go on some pretty serious tangents, including: why I hate the phrase "speaking the truth in love," the crazy things customers say to me at work, and how we've learned to live with doubt.
Monday Oct 23, 2017
The Nashville Statement, Pt 3
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Monday Oct 23, 2017
Matt Langston and I continue our reading of the Nashville Statement. In the process we discuss the harms perpetrated against gay people by the church, the disconnect Christians have with the LGBT community, and Matt shares his story of how he was kicked out of a Christian college for refusing to sign a document very similar to the Nashville Statement.
Monday Oct 16, 2017
The Nashville Statement, Pt. 2
Monday Oct 16, 2017
Monday Oct 16, 2017
Matt Langston (of Eleventyseven fame) and I continue our read-through of the Nashville Statement. We discuss gender, transgenderism, gay celibacy, and the dangers of gender complementarianism. I also got a bit drunk.
Monday Oct 09, 2017
The Nashville Statement, Pt. 1
Monday Oct 09, 2017
Monday Oct 09, 2017
In this episode of Sacred Tension, Eleventyseven frontman Matt Langston reads the anti-gay Nashville Statement to me to get a blow by blow response from a real-life gay person. In the process we discuss a wide range of topics including sex, the Bible, and growing up gay in the south.
Link to the Nashville Statement.