To whom or what do you pray / communicate, and what for? Describe any specific practices if you want. What is your personal prayer life / spiritual life like? Does it come easily? Are there challenges? are willing to share those stories on a podcastĬontact me on social media or at I’ll need from you: either a written transcript that I can read on your behalf, or an audio or video file of you speaking your own story (preferably no more than 8 or so minutes long). have spiritual practices or sacred spaces that are meaningful to you “This is an interfaith podcast – trans persons from any (or no) religious background are welcome to share their stories! The goal for this episode isto showcase the richnessof many trans persons’ spiritual lives. Then three squares with papyrus-colored backgrounds and brown text read: “Call for trans people’s stories for a special episode of the Blessed Are the Binary Breakers podcast on personal worship and sacred spaces” The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2020.Ī photo of an altar with candles, a notebook, some crystals and other materials on it with this text printed over the photo: Please feel free to spread this around, or to message or email me with any questions you have! blessed are the binary breakers podcast interfaith religious pluralism decolonize christianity kaitlin curtice barbara brown taylor holy envy Reckoning with one’s personal history of oppression that comes with being Christian and/or holding white ancestryįind places to listen + a link to the transcript here.How Curtice’s Potawatomi identity enriches her faith. Curtice’s Native begin - the violence of Christian colonization and white assimilation against Curtice and her Potawatomi ancestors Moving Christianity from the center and putting God (or absolute truth) there - Christianity becomes one of many "planets” (religions and other ideologies) orbiting around that center.How fear of hell and a need to be most right, most favored poisons Christians’ ability to open themselves to learn from other faiths.Excerpts from Barbara Brown Taylor’s Holy Envy begin - “Could my faith be improved by the faiths of others?".Why trans persons of all (and no) faiths need to include religious identity in our solidarity and activism (5:36 - 10:35).The next episode will feature authors from religions other than Christianity. Curtice’s 2020 book Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God. The passages Avery shares in this episode come from Barbara Brown Taylor’s 2018 book Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others and Kaitlin B. In this first episode, Avery focuses in on the extra complexities faced by Christians in approaching interfaith relationships respectfully, as members of a religion with a history and present tangled up in colonization and assimilation. New ep up! This is the first of two episodes featuring excerpts from authors who speak on religious pluralism, interfaith relationships, and how diverse identities and cultures enrich religion.
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