The Wilderness, Spiritual Gifts, and Gender-Expansive Christians
The Evolving Faith Podcast
Sarah Bessey
4.9 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this life-giving episode we are thrilled to welcome Austen Hartke, Michiko Bown-Kai, and Rev. Dr. Christina Beardsley as they each present a talk about evolving faith through the lens of their trans and/or non-binary identities. Then our guests join Sarah and Jeff in a wise and beautiful conversation on wilderness, hope, paradox, and how the fullness of identity can be a form of resistance and prophetic witness. (Rated Explicit for profanity.)
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| 0:00.0 | We are all looking for belonging. Some of you are listening to this |
| 0:04.8 | podcast because you've deconstructed your beliefs, maybe you've endured some pain |
| 0:09.0 | and trauma, stood bewildered before a community that once felt so much like family. |
| 0:14.0 | Perhaps what you used to call home isn't really home anymore for one big reason or a thousand reasons. |
| 0:20.0 | Maybe you've landed somewhere completely different. Maybe like most of us you're still landing. |
| 0:26.4 | Many of us have found our way here to evolving faith because we are looking for healing spaces. |
| 0:31.6 | We are longing for fellow sojourners and needing room to exhale all of our questions and doubts. |
| 0:38.0 | We yearn to be more connected and less alone and we're reaching out for others who feel the same to know that it's not just |
| 0:44.9 | us out here, to know that it's possible to resurrect and reimagine, even maybe rebuild. |
| 0:52.0 | So this is why we exist. |
| 0:53.7 | To cultivate hope and love in that wilderness, we know we're not alone and neither are you, and |
| 0:58.5 | we are so ready to welcome you to our little outpost so that you can rest, laugh, grieve, create hope, and know that you are |
| 1:07.9 | loved through and through. You're invited to join us, a bunch of folks from all over the world who are making our own beautiful, diverse and messy table in the wilderness. |
| 1:18.0 | Tickets are now on sale for Evolving Faith 2023. We're gathering both online and in person this year on |
| 1:24.6 | October 14th and 15th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We're so excited to |
| 1:29.6 | welcome all of you and speakers such as Krista Tippett, Dante Stewart, Nautia Bolts Weber, Dr. Wil Gaffney, Barbara Brown Taylor, and so, so many more. |
| 1:40.0 | I would absolutely love to see you in Minneapolis or online for that sacred weekend and I hope |
| 1:45.0 | that you will find belonging in this little Motley crew too. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, bring a friend or ten, you can come by yourself, you'll probably make a new friend there you're not just welcome you're wanted so |
| 1:55.1 | head over to evolving faith.com for more information and to register today. It is well with my soul. |
| 2:07.0 | My soul. |
| 2:10.0 | Hi friends, I'm Sarah Bessie and I'm Jeff Chu. Welcome back to the |
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