Karen Rooms and Jay Hulme - The Gayest Church in the City (N272)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Priest Karen Rooms and transgender poet, author and educator Jay Hulme describe what it's like for them to be part of an ancient and LGBTQ+ affirming church. As they recall the story of their developing friendship, their conversation guides us through the pandemic, Jay's early faith experiences and Karen's reflections on being a cisgender heterosexual woman entrusted with the care of a diverse and fully inclusive congregation. With humour, insight and creativity they offer a unique perspective on what it could mean to be church.
Conversation starts at 18m 23sÂ
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Tim and this is still Joy Brooks. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello. |
| 0:42.2 | You're on the last episode, Joyce. I won't ask you again what you've been up to because if you're |
| 0:45.9 | anything like me, it takes more than two weeks for something to happen in your life. Is that true? |
| 0:49.8 | Definitely, yeah. |
| 0:51.2 | So I thought we'd do something a little bit different as a way of listener, connecting more deeply with you, I'm going to ask you what TV program you're watching at the moment and what does it say about you? |
| 1:02.1 | Well, there's a bit of a theme in what we have watched recently. So as you know, we're plowing our way through Better Cool Soar. But what I have recently completed watching is called Undone. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm not heard of that. |
| 1:14.3 | No, it is, I had to look this up because I didn't know how to describe it either. |
| 1:18.3 | It's an adult animated psychological drama. |
| 1:21.5 | Wow. |
| 1:22.1 | But the animation, so I had to ask my kids what it was called, is called rotoscoping, |
| 1:30.9 | which means they film it in real life. |
| 1:34.6 | And then, I meant to look it up so I knew the actual words. |
| 1:39.6 | And then the animation is based on the actual real life people being filmed. |
| 1:42.0 | Yes, I think I came across a film. |
| 1:43.9 | I think Kiana Reeves was in it. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah, you might be right. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.7 | But anyway, the link to better cool soul is that Bob Odenkirk, who plays Jimmy, is one of the main characters in it. Oh, really? |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah. |
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