Facing Death and Seeing Miracles

Unholier Than Thou

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Phil introduces the podcast by talking about one of the reasons he began re-evaluating his relationship with God: finding love. He’ll talk to his fiancé, Dr. Darien Sutton, who happens to be an emergency room doctor, battling on the front lines of the COVID outbreak, while still maintaining a strong belief in the power of faith and the situations where he’s witnessed miracles.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the first episode of Unholier than Now. I'm Philip Picardy, your host.
0:11.6	You might know me from my work at Teen Vogue where I was the chief
0:17.6	content officer. More recently, you may know me from being the editor-in-chief of Out magazine where I covered all things LGBTQ.
0:24.8	Right now you may be just as surprised as I am to hear that I am hosting a
0:32.4	podcast that is about faith and spirituality.
0:35.0	I actually wanted to create unholyer than now because I myself was having a crisis of faith.
0:42.0	I was and have always been a proud
0:46.0	homosexual. Even when I was a kid I was probably one of the gayest people you could
0:51.7	ever meet and I basically always wore who I was
0:56.8	immediately on my sleeve and for any kid that's probably a good thing right but for my
1:01.7	family it was a little bit more complicated. My dad was and
1:05.2	is extremely Catholic, and it was a complicated upbringing. When I eventually came out of the
1:10.1	closet, I remember telling my dad that I was no longer going to get confirmed and for those of you who don't know
1:16.9	Confirmation is something that you do as a teenager in the Catholic faith where you basically declare that you are committing yourself to the faith and I knew that I could not in good faith
1:28.0	declare myself or declare any allegiance to Pope John Paul the second because he was homophobic and in fact because the entire Catholic
1:35.3	church is homophobic. So I walked away from the faith and so that kind of brings me to today. You know, I have had the same relationship with God for the past 15 years that I did when I was 14.
1:48.0	And that is that I don't know who God is.
1:52.0	What I do know is that I am a newly engaged man and I know that before I get married
2:01.2	I want to figure this shit out and reassess my values and what I stood
2:07.2	for and when I thought a lot about that I realized that I had to go all the way back to the beginning to figure out how I could move forward.
2:17.0	So for today, it feels logical that we interviewed the person who for me has most embodied what God means and that's my
2:28.3	fiance and I know that that sounds maybe a little bit trite and and maybe a little gross but bear with me. I have not been
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