No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: A Conversation With Shannon TL Kearns
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens by Ryan Remington. Published by Quoir, and available now.
In this episode we chat with Shannon TL Kearns
A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. His book In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey With Scripture is published Eerdmaan's books. No One Taught Me How To Be A Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals About Masculinity is published by Broadleaf Books. Shannon is a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His work there with Brian G. Murphy has reached more than a million people all over the world through videos, articles, and online courses and community. They have the longest running LBGTQ+ Spirituality podcast in the world. Shannon is a Humanitas New Voices Fellow for 2022 and was a recipient of the Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21 and he was a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019 (in playwriting) and 2022 (in screenwriting) and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. He is a sought after speaker on transgender issues and religion as well as a skilled facilitator of a variety of workshops. Shannon's plays include Laughing, Flexing, Dying, Stories We Tell At the End of the World, Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. Shannon's television pilots include: The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. Selected recognition: Winner of the ScreenCraft Pitch competition, finalist for Bull City Film Festival for his pilot Transformed, a playwright in residence at the Inge House, Seven Devils' Playwright Conference, Great Plains Theatre Commons, a semi-finalist for the O'Neill, and a finalist for the Blue Ink playwriting award.
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No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: A Conversation With Shannon TL Kearns
This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by Peelakiiyankwi: Processing Liberation Through an Indigenous American Lens by Ryan Remington. Published by Quoir, and available now.
In this episode we chat with Shannon TL Kearns
A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. His book In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey With Scripture is published Eerdmaan's books. No One Taught Me How To Be A Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals About Masculinity is published by Broadleaf Books. Shannon is a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His work there with Brian G. Murphy has reached more than a million people all over the world through videos, articles, and online courses and community. They have the longest running LBGTQ+ Spirituality podcast in the world. Shannon is a Humanitas New Voices Fellow for 2022 and was a recipient of the Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21 and he was a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019 (in playwriting) and 2022 (in screenwriting) and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. He is a sought after speaker on transgender issues and religion as well as a skilled facilitator of a variety of workshops. Shannon's plays include Laughing, Flexing, Dying, Stories We Tell At the End of the World, Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. Shannon's television pilots include: The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. Selected recognition: Winner of the ScreenCraft Pitch competition, finalist for Bull City Film Festival for his pilot Transformed, a playwright in residence at the Inge House, Seven Devils' Playwright Conference, Great Plains Theatre Commons, a semi-finalist for the O'Neill, and a finalist for the Blue Ink playwriting award.
You can connect with Shannon on:
Facebook Instagram Threads
You can find all things Shannon TL Kearns related on his
You can preorder No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals about Masculinity on Amazon.com
You can connect with This Is Not Church on:
Facebook Instagram TikTok YouTube
Also check out our Biolink for all things This Is Not Church related
Please like and follow our Quoircast Partners:
Heretic Happy Hour Messy Spirituality Apostates Anonymous Second Cup with Keith The Church Needs Therapy
Ideas Digest Snarky Faith Podcast Wild Olive Deadly Faith Spirituality Brew Pub Faith For The Rest Of Us
Love Covered Life The Social Jesus Project I Was A Teenage Fundamentalist Radical Love Live The God Squad
Each episode of This Is Not Church Podcast is expertly engineered by our producer The Podcast Doctor Eric Howell. If you’re thinking of starting a podcast you need to connect with Eric!