Mason chats live at the 2021 Wild Goose Festival with Brenda Davies about her book, On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel. We chat about her journey through purity culture, how sex can shape our theology, and much more.

(Episode content warning: Throughout the episode Brenda shares vulnerably about being sexually assaulted. Also, towards the end of the episode she mentions that religious trauma syndrome is recognized by DSM-5. After recording we were corrected that it is not. However, religious trauma syndrome is recognized by many psychologists.)

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Brenda Marie Davies is a podcaster and YouTuber of the channel God is Grey, which has over 100,000 subscribers. She is also the author of the recent book, On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel.

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Mason chats with Melissa Florer-Bixler about her new book How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace. We chat about who are enemies, how we are to love them, and much more.

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Melissa Florer-Bixler is a Mennonite pastor and writer.

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Mason chats with his friend Keegan Osinski about her new book, Queering Wesley, Queering the Church. We chat about what the church can learn from queer people, circumcision, how process theology is super queer, and much more.

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Keegan is a librarian and author of the recent book Queering Wesley, Queering the Church.

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Mason chats with Jarel Robinson-Brown about his new book, Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace. We chat about why Black, queer, Christian lives matter and Jarel even admits that he's a process theologian.

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Jarel Robinson-Brown is a liberation theologian and Anglican priest.

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Mason chats with Kat Armas about her new book, Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about. We chat about what she has learned theologically from the abuelitas in her life and much more.

Guest Bio/Info:

Kat Armas is a Cuban-American writer and speaker and podcast host of The Protagonistas. She is also the author of Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength. 

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Mason chats with Mark Charles about his book, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. We chat all about the Doctrine of Discovery, Mark's theology of land and water, and much more.

Guest Bio/Info:

Mark Charles is a Native American activist, public speaker, and author of Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery.

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Mason chats with John Thatamanil about multi-religious participation, what it means to think theologically about participating in multiple religious traditions, and his book about religious diversity.

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John Thatamanil is Associate Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity.

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Mason chats with Arielle Estoria about why poetry is so important to theology. They also chat about poetry as an embodied theological act and much more.

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Arielle Estoria is an accomplished poet, author, and activist.

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Mason chats with Alicia Crosby about the work she's up to in the world. They chat all about how theology can change the world, why digital activism is important in our day and age, and how our bodies inform our theology.

Guest Bio/Info:

Alicia Crosby is a justice educator, activist, and minister.

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Mason chats with Micky ScottBey Jones about her work as womanist caring for the souls of people in activist movements. They chat about movement chaplaincy, womanism, and much more.

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Micky ScottBey Jones is a womanist, justice doula, author, speaker, and director of Healing and Resilience Initiatives at Faith Matters Network.

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