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This is the final week of my masters project for Wartburg Theological Seminary. Today on the podcast I will be recapping the series and talking about what I will do about all of this research. We are also joined by Dr. Z PHD who has an amazing youtube channel for transgender people. Get out your red pen and grade my project.

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REFERENCES:
David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Diane Sue, Stanley Sue, Understanding Abnormal Behavior 12th Edition (Boston, MA, Cengage Learning, 2022) p 152. Dr. Natalia Zhikhareva, Political Disagreements, Transition Too Fast, Cant Transition Discrimination, Repression & More (youtube.com, @drzphd, 2023). Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research (Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1995) pg 2,5,12,14,15,259. Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking The Spell (New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2006) pg 208. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, The Handy Science Answer Book (Detroit, MI, Visible Ink Press, 1994) pg 319.

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Today on the show we we discuss the tensions between mental health care and spirituality. In todays modern world we see religion over-spiritualize clinical mental health issues. Today we will discuss how spiritual care providers can be integrated into the clinical setting to offer long-term care for those who need it. 

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REFERENCES:
Dr. William B Oglesby Jr, Referral as Pastoral Care (healingreligion.com, The Journal of Pastoral Care, 1987) Vol. XLI, No. 2. Karen D. Scheib, Pastoral Care: Telling the Stories of Our Lives (Nashville, TN, Abington Press, 2016) pg 69-71. Muhammad A. Ali, Omer Bajwa, Sondos Kholaki, Jaye Starr, Mantle of Mercy: Islamic Chaplaincy in North America (W. Conshohocken, PA, Templeton Press, 2022) pg 34. Chris Greenough, Queer Theologies: The Baiscs (London, UK, Routledge, 2019) pg 44. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal (New York, NY, Macmillan Publishing, 2014) pg 68. Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue (Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 2016) pg 154-155. The Christian as Minister (Nashville, TN, The United Methodist Church, 2013) pg 47. Camilla Hallinan, Laura Sandford, The LGBTQ+ History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2023) pg 182-183. David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Diane Sue, Stanley Sue, Understanding Abnormal Behavior 12th Edition (Boston, MA, Cengage Learning, 2022) pg 20,24,95. 

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Today on the show we continue a series from my Masters project to explore the need for spiritual care for LGBTQ people outside of churches. Many queer people have been traumatized by churches and pastors. Today we dive into some data about what LGBTQ people say this topic.

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https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/visualization/lgbt-stats/?topic=LGBT&area=26#density.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WfazrKfoFQp04zOATUO019xhh3zQJ1o5/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106670174609226452755&rtpof=true&sd=true.
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx

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Today on the the Podcast we begin a special series. If you listen to the podcast for any time you will learn that I am a seminary student and today kicks off a four week podcast series that is part of my masters project. So get out your red pen and play professor and judge me harshly. Today on the podcast we are talking about the long dark history of the church and how it has affected LGBTQIA+ people throughout generations. We will begin to look forward to where we can go from here.

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REFERENCES: 
Camilla Hallinan, Laura Sandford, The LGBTQ+ History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2023) pg 42,43,44,56,59,64,69,70, 228,229,230. Jay Starr, Mantle of Mercy (West Conshohocken, PA, Templeton Press, 2022) pg 105. Melissa Wilcox, Queer Religiosities (London, UK, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) pg 78. Chris Greenough, Queer Theologies: The Basics (London, UK, Routledge, 2019) pg 13. Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Crucial Conversations (New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Companies, 2012) pg 105. The Fla. Moms Battling the Book-Ban Brigade, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA: The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2023). D. Sue, D.W Sue, D. Sue, S Sue, Understanding Abnormal Behavior 12th Edition (Boston, MA, Cengage, 2022) pg  23, 54, 490. Dr. MIchael Nichols, Dr. Martha Straus, The Lost Art of Listening (New York, NY, The Guilford Press, 2021) pg 183.  Kevin O'Brien, The Ignation Adventure (Chicago, IL, Loyola Press, 2011) pg 23. Linda Tatro Herzer, The Bible and the Transgender Experience (Cleveland, OH, Pilgrim Press, 2016) pg 18. Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue (Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 2016) pg 48,49,56,57,58,59. The Book of Concord, The Lutheran Confessions (St. Louis, MO, Concordia Publishing House, 2006) pg 46. U.S. Says Book Bans May Violate Student Rights, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA: The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2023). 

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Happy Easter Friends! On todays episode we will explore Easter from a queer viewpoint. How does the powerful tradition of heteronormative Christianity square with the LGBTQ experience. On todays episode we will explore it together.

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REFERENCES: 
Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2006) pg 335. Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ (New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2021) pg 111, 122, 169. The Use of the Means of Grace: A Statement on the Practice of Word and Sacrament (Minneapolis, MN, Evangelical Church of America, 1997) pg 13. D. Sue, D.W Sue, D. Sue, S Sue, Understanding Abnormal Behavior 12th Edition (Boston, MA, Cengage, 2022) pg 113. Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue (Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 2016) pg 86,87,158,159. Loreen Maseno and Elia Shabani Mlgo, Women within Religions (Eugene, OR, WIPF and Stock, 2020) pg, 3,25. 

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Today on the show we will talk about an often weaponized scripture against the LGBTQ community. Many times queer people are told to take up their own cross and stay in the closet. We are told that when we come out that we gave into evil and are trying to preserve our lives. However today we are going to look at a completely queer perspective of this ancient biblical passage and discover how it applies to the LGBTQ community.

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REFERENCES:
Lutheran Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version (Minneapolis, MN, Augsburg Press, 2009) Mark 16:24-27, Phillipans 2:5. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (New York, NY, Macmillan Publishing, 2014) pg 7. Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2006) pg 11,17,316. Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue (Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 2016) pg 28,29,46,47,50,51,52,53,88,89,114,115,132,133. Linda Tatro Herzer, The Bible and the Transgender Experience (Cleveland, OH, Pilgrim Press, 2016) pg 74. D. Sue, D.W Sue, D. Sue, S Sue, Understanding Abnormal Behavior 12th Edition (Boston, MA, Cengage, 2022) pg 18. Eric Froner, Give Me Liberty: An American History (New York, NY, W.W. Norton and Company, 2017) pg 148,149. Robert A. Jonas, Henri Nouwen: Modern Spiritual Masters Series (Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, 1998) pg 7,8. Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ (New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2021) pg 152,154,216,218.
 

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Today on the podcast we are exploring the story of Jesus riding into town on a donkey. How can this story parallel the queer Christian experience? Many people in Christianity before they came out were told they had enormous potential in the kingdom of God just to let everyone down when they came out. Today we see the parallels of this story and the queer experience.

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Lutheran Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version (Minneapolis, MN, Augsburg Press, 2009) Mark 1:35-39, 3:7-12, 6:30-44, John 12:12-15. Mark Allan Powell, Introducing The New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Publishing, 2018) pg  45,135. Rev Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue (Boston, MA: Beacon Press Books, 2016) pg 86-87. D. Sue, D.W. Sue, D. Sue, S. Sue, (2013), Cengage Learning Inc, 136.  Gregory Ellison, Cut Dead But Still Alive (Abigdon Press, 2013) 45-58.
 

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Today we discuss the tensions of church being a business, when Jesus turned over tables in the temple. Join me for a talk about how to navigate this tension in a world where costs are rising and our churches ask for more. Also we have a a snip from one our favorite shows "Queer Theology Podcast".

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Joanna Whaley, Exegesis on ACTS 2:42-47 From a Queer Theological Frame (Debuque, IA: Wartburg Theological Seminary, 2024). Mark Allan Powell, Introducing The New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Publishing, 2018) pg 30,31,32. Linda Tatro Herzer, The Bible and the Transgender Experience (Cleveland, OH: The Pilgrim Press, 2016) pg 75. John Bowker, World Religions: The Great Faiths Explored and Explained (New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2021) pg 266. Rev Elizabeth M. Edman, Queer Virtue (Boston, MA: Beacon Press Books, 2016) pg 140,145.Eric Froner, Give Me Liberty: An American History (New York, NY: WW. Norton and Company, 2017) pg 95. 

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This week on the podcast we talk about reimagining lent. This can be a time in life when people change habits and give things up. However, what do we do with this time of the year ad post-evangelicals. How does a new movie that just came out teach us how the queer community has been oppressed by religion? Join me for this weeks episode.

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In this  episode of the podcast, join us on a journey of self-discovery and liberation as we delve into the profound topic of shedding harmful theology from a queer perspective. Hosted by Joanna Whaley, this episode creates a safe space for candid conversations about the impact of restrictive religious beliefs on the LGBTQ+ community.

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REFERENCES:
 Muhammad A. Ali, Omer Bajwa, Sondos Kholaki, Jay Starr, Mantle of Mercy (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press, 2022) pg 41, Winston D. Persaud, Dialog: Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Justification and Vision of Eco-Justice (St. Paul, MN: Dialoag Inc, 1992) pg 295. Paul Timothy McMain, The Book of Concord, St Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2006) pg 34. Loreen Maseno, Elia Shabani Mligo, Women Within Religions (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2020) pg 3,77


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