Mild at Heart: Love, Sex, and Masculinity After Purity Culture: Ep 8
Straight White American Jesus
Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, get ready for on God's campus. Voices from the Queer Underground podcast about |
| 0:13.7 | white Christian supremacy and being queer in the most conservative campuses in the country. |
| 0:19.5 | Join Chloe as the $90 reads in God We Trust. Paul. |
| 0:24.4 | Especially the text about homosexuality and abortion. |
| 0:28.7 | And I adhered to that biblical document until I was 19 when I had my first relationship |
| 0:34.0 | with a woman. As they reveal a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's best kept secrets. |
| 0:46.5 | You're listening to an irreverent podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators. |
| 0:58.4 | What's up, y'all? Welcome to Milded Heart, our series on love, masculinity, and sex. After |
| 1:13.2 | Peer to Culture, my name is Brad O'Niche. And today I want to just read a little bit of an essay |
| 1:19.0 | that I have written, actually wrote a while ago and never published it. This is an excerpt. |
| 1:24.6 | And for me, it really exemplifies some of the things that I've come to understand about |
| 1:29.7 | what Peer to Culture taught me and what evangelicalism taught me about love and marriage, |
| 1:34.0 | how the soulmate myth imbued my understanding of my relationship, |
| 1:39.6 | and just how I healed from it all. Some of you may know, but I shared this on the show. I was |
| 1:45.6 | married at 20 to somebody I'd been dating since I was 14. And so we got divorced when I was 24. |
| 1:53.9 | And living in England. And so I've always looked at that period in England as the time I lost both |
| 1:59.9 | my soulmates. I de-converted or deconstructed from evangelicalism and my marriage ended. And so |
| 2:06.2 | I was 6,000 miles from home and really just trying to cope with both of the ones leaving my life. |
| 2:12.6 | And so this essay is titled Morning the One. And it touches on a lot of things we've been talking |
| 2:19.5 | about in this series. On the coach from Oxford to Heathrow, the world had been transformed, |
| 2:26.3 | or perhaps what was there all along was finally revealed. The chip shops, dilapidated churches, |
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