Rachel Mann - A Trans-Woman Meets a Queer God (N137)

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Deconstruction, Christian Mysticism, Post-evangelical, Liberation Theology, Progressive Christianity, Christianity, Mystical Christianity, Contemplative Spirituality, Religious Trauma Healing, Religion & Spirituality, Faith Shift, Reconstruction, Spiritual Direction, Embodied Spirituality, Evolving Faith

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Priest, poet and feminist theologian, Rachel Mann is a trans-woman. From an early age she had a profound sense that her body didn't reflect her gender. After a long, frustrating and painful journey she emerged into the woman she is today. We ask...

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.3	Welcome back to Nomad podcast, Still searching for signs of hope.
0:21.9	You feeling hopeful?
0:23.2	Yeah, I am actually.
0:25.1	Yeah?
0:25.7	Feeling this sort of a good place generally.
0:28.4	It's going to say spiritually then, but soulfully.
0:31.0	Yeah, pretty good.
0:32.4	Yeah, not bad.
0:33.2	I'm still struggling a bit.
0:34.3	Still struggling with the problem of evil.
0:36.0	I'm still trying to get my head around that one.
0:38.0	Ah. Yeah. You know with the problem of evil. I'm still trying to get my head around that one. Yeah.
0:38.6	You know, the whole kind of all-powerful, all-loving God,
0:42.7	and yet the world's gone up in flames.
0:44.5	Yeah.
0:44.9	It's caused me some problems, so I'm working on that.
0:47.6	Yeah, I tell not to think about it too much.
0:51.3	That's generally the way you roll, isn't it?
0:53.2	Just don't think too much about things.
0:54.7	I let you do all the thinking for me too. Then you get me thinking that depresses me.
0:59.8	It's been keeping me up at nights. Yeah. It does sometimes, yeah. I can imagine. Yeah.
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