Life on Side B

In this episode, Bekah and Josh are talking with Bill Henson, founder and creator of Posture Shift and author of Guiding Families of LGBT+ Loved Ones. Along the lines of this season's theme, the three of them talk about the importance of having a missiological perspective in ministry and how this affects the way we approach church inclusion. The episode touches on language, historic trauma, and church policy. If you are a pastor or church leader, you will definitely want to listen to this. Learn more about Posture Shift at postureshift.com and Guiding Families at guidingfamilies.com

Josh and Henry are having a late morning discussion with Wesley Hill, Eve Tushnet, and David Bennett, three prominent authors on sexuality and faith from a "Side B" perspective. We are talking about everything from how and why they wrote their books, how the landscape has shifted, and what they seen coming next for themselves and the movement.

Here is the link to Eve's article on the Pope that was mentioned: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/24/what-does-pope-francis-believe-about-same-sex-love/

Here is the article by Steve Holmes that Wes mentioned: https://shoredfragments.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/queer-hippo-musings-on-human-sexuality/ 

In this week's episode, we are sharing the recording of our live episode from back in January at the QCF Conference. Grant and Josh are joined by Darren Calhoun, board member of QCF and previously on S2E16&17 | LIVE Panel on Race and Queerness, to discuss queer Christian solidarity. What does it look like for Side A and Side B Christians to support each other across the belief spectrum?

We're back for Season 3! Bekah, Grant, Henry, Josh, and Sarah introduce the season theme of Identity & Inclusion, sharing what these two terms mean to them, why they are important topics to discuss, and what episodes each is looking forward to record. The cohosts also spend some time at the beginning of the episode sharing how each is doing in the initial weeks of 2021.   

Here is the photo of Josh's family which was mentioned:

Theme Song: Driven to Success by Scott Holmes

We have a few announcements to share but the most exciting is our new cohost: Sarah Abbey! Sarah is an amazing person and we cannot wait for you to get to know her more over this coming season. 

Plus we give a sneak peak of our latest patreon episode "A Gay Christmas with Bekah, Henry, and Josh." Check it out at patreon.com/lifeonsideb

Important links in the episode:

Season 2 Feedback Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffknOwSvctm_7wkqoO0uTWoeexqrCLd-wnSxArNTiAaXr8nw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Q Conf 2021: Use the code SIDEB2021 when registering for conference at qcfconf.org/ will get $10 off the Virtual All Access Pass (Student Pass Excluded).

We are wrapping up Season 2 on Thriving instead of Surviving though we still have our Spanish episode to come. At the first ever B Chats event two weeks ago on November 14th, the cohost team recorded our Season 2 review and had a blast looking over the past year, discussing what we learned on thriving, as well as sharing exciting news about things to come in Season 3. 

Theme Song: Driven to Success by Scott Holmes

Josh mentions a photo of a bunkbed product Grant saw that looks like the podcast logo. The photo of the bunkbed is pictured here:

Today we are talking with Anthony Esser and Greg Coles about prayer. Where does prayer fit into thriving? 

Donate to Henry's medical bills here.

Sites Mentioned:

https://www.anthonyesser.com/

https://www.gregorycoles.com/ 

Pre-order Greg Cole's upcoming book, No Longer Strangers, at https://www.ivpress.com/no-longer-strangers 

Theme Song: Driven to Success by Scott Holmes

Today, Bekah and I are talking with Branden Polk, board member of Revoice and director of Arrowhead Consulting, about social media and how to navigate it.

Music:

Theme: Driven to Success by Scott Holmes

Interlude: Wonderous Love by Murphy, D.X.

It has been a bit since we released an episode and that is because Josh has been on a road trip and behind on the podcast. We are back today with a new episode though! Mary and Josh are talking with Kat LaPrairie about abiding in Christ and what that looks like for us as LGBT+ Christians. 

At the end of the episode, Mary mentions an episode of Theology in the Raw which Kat did with Preston Sprinkle. You can hear that episode at https://www.prestonsprinkle.com/theology-in-the-raw/2019/9/9/756-a-transgender-christians-journey-with-jesus-kat-laprairie

Also, Josh mentioned a podcast episode that impacted him on "slowdown spirituality." It is "Unhurry and Culture with John Mark Comer" on the Food Trucks in Bablyon podcast. You can listen to it at https://podcast.westernseminary.edu/episodes/unhurry-and-culture 

This is an exciting one for me (Josh) because we are having a fellow Side B podcaster here on with us today...Laurie Krieg. Grant and I are talking with Laurie about doubt and how to deal with it. Is there anything good God can do through our doubt? We also talk to Laurie about her new book coming out in October 2020 called Impossible Marriage and the experience of doubt she explains about in the book. You can pre-order Impossible Marriage now at www.impossiblemarriage.com and join their launch team to get extra bonus materials.