Fireworks with Mike Maeshiro
Deconversion Therapy
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
PRIDE is over. But that doesn't mean we're done listening to people who survived evangelicalism and are now thriving as out LGBT people. Listen in on Karen's conversation with Mike Maeshiro, a former instructor at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry and his journey to being an out gay man.
Find out more about him at https://www.mikemaeshiro.com/ and watch his roundtable conversation mentioned on the podcast HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Deconversion Therapy. I don't know why I say welcome back. You know we're here. |
| 0:17.3 | This is Karen, and it's Pride Month. And today we have Mike Machiro. And I'm really excited, |
| 0:24.9 | Mike, because first, you're in Nashville. |
| 0:28.7 | Yes. Second, we've done quite a few episodes on your former church, Bethel. |
| 0:36.1 | And, yeah, and according to your website, the first line is, |
| 0:42.8 | he is gay. I think that's what it says. Mike is gay, period. And then it goes into the rest. |
| 0:50.5 | So I like how you don't stumble over, you know, the words there. Yeah. Thanks, Karen. I'm honored to be here. And listen, I spent the rest. So I like how you don't stumble over, you know, the words there. Yeah. Thanks, Karen. I'm |
| 0:56.1 | honored to be here. And listen, I spent the first, what, few decades of my life, stumbling over that. |
| 1:01.2 | So I'm just not stumbling anymore. I'm over that. Yeah, yeah. Very concise sentence you have there. |
| 1:07.2 | So I heard about you from April, a joy, but that doesn't mean that you didn't come across my radar earlier. |
| 1:17.2 | You know, memory has gone. |
| 1:21.4 | But yeah, I'm excited you're in Nashville. |
| 1:23.8 | I would love to pass you and all the other ex-phangelicals here and not make eye |
| 1:29.8 | contact. I think that would be great. Yeah, totally. Karen, I actually came across your stuff on |
| 1:38.3 | TikTok maybe like over a year ago. So I've been aware of you. Do we connect there? Okay. |
| 1:42.9 | Well, I don't know if we connected. I just followed you and just appreciated your content. I just watched from afar, you know, so it's kind of fun to be here now. I know. And I haven't been doing it lately because, you know, I've been telling people, sometimes what we're doing, I feel a little bit of the hustle. And I've been doing it six years. |
| 2:01.9 | And when I feel that hustle, I like take a break. |
| 2:05.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:06.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:06.1 | Totally. |
| 2:06.8 | Totally. |
| 2:07.5 | Same. |
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