Shift Happens

Today Joe talk with Melody Winderweedle. Melody is the lead pastor of Ecclessia church in Chattanooga, TN.

Melody talks about growing up in a very conservative, charismatic movement and how going to a conservative Christian school actually led to a glimmer of liberation. Joe talks to her about how her lived experiences led to a larger liberation based theology and how that informs the works she's part of now.

To find and follow Melody you can go to her website HERE
or follow her on Instagram HERE
You can also connect with her church HERE

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

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Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

In our 50th episode, Joe talks with our very first guest Brent Roberts. This is a beatiful conversation that goes where it needs to go.

They talk about their respective journeys, the lessons they’ve learned and how the work truly never ends.

Make sure you click the links and reach out to Brent for just about anything. 

Brent Roberts Episode #1
Shipfaced Podcast
Actor Site
Instagram
TikTok

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

In today’s episode, Joe talks to Brian Recker. You may know Brian from his gut punchingly honest IG reels and posts.

They get into how Brian grew up in the IBC, his deconstruction into evangelicalism and what brought him to the work he does now.

Click the links below to follow Brian and keep up with his work.
BrianRecker.com
Instagram

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

Today Joe talks to Sarah J. Ruthless. You may know them from their online presence and their "Drunk Bible Story" skits but underneath all that humor and sarcasm lays some long term religious pain and trauma.

Sarah's story will resonate with many people (unfortunately) as they talks about growing up in high control spaces, navigating their queer identity and discovering their neurodivergence. Sarah finds healing and refuge in the skits, acting and online community they have cultivated. And despite having so much religious baggage has found a way to turn that around and create something real and beautiful and full of hope.

If you would like to connect with Sarah you can find her website HERE.
Instagram
Tik Tok

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

In this episode, Joe talks to Sharon "Rocky" Roggio from the 1946 Movie.

If you are unaware of this documentary, it dives in to the mistranslation that led to the word homosexual being inserted into the Bible in 1946. Joe talks to Rocky about how she came upon the idea, the reason her story with her dad is featured, how people can help with the ongoing project and so much more.

Rocky's energy and passion for this work is infectious and you will walk away feeling encouraged, not only by her but by the work.

Make sure to click all the link below for the upcoming tour dates, how to help if you can and where to stream the film.

Upcoming screenings 

Southern Circuit Tour Info 

Stream 1946 The Movie

1946 The Movie Website

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

In this episode Joe talks to Raul Zambrano.

Raul is a listener and reached out to Joe to share his story. Raul talks about his upbringing in a very evangelical, fundamentalist school in Florida. He talks about the crimes committed at this private Christian school, how it influenced his thinking and the harm it created in the community.

Raul also talks about how the school's view on LGBTQIA people ended up (very negative), ended up having the opposite affect on him as a large portion of his client base is made up of queer people.

If you are wanting to contact Raul for therapy please click HERE.

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

In this episode, Joe talks to his old college friend Trisha Wilkerson. Trisha is an author, speaker, coach and nutritionist.

Trisha talks about her days at the fundamentalist college she met Joe at, how her and her husband ended up at Mars Hill and all that entailed. She talks about the work they did untangling all the toxic theology and how it benefited her family when one of their children came out to them.

This conversation is full of hope and encouragement. Regardless of where you are, everyone will walk away with some wisdom.

To find out more about Trisha or her personal, work please click HERE.
To listen to the story of Mars Hill please click HERE.
To learn more about The Aftermath Agency, click HERE.

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

In today's episode Joe talks to social media influencer Heather Foy AKA Happy Heather.

Heather talks about her upbringing in a very strict, high control religion and religious household. She talks about her early marriage, deconstructing with her husband, the coming out of one of their kids and how all that played in her finding the courage to face her own sexuality.

To follow Heather on Threads click HERE.
To follow Heather on Instagram click HERE.
To follow Heather on TikTok click HERE.

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

This week Joe talks to Jon Harris Maurer who is the Public Policy Director for Equality Florida.

This isn't the normal episode but with so much good news coming out of the last legislative session (who knew that was going to happen), we wanted someone on the frontlines talking to us about what happened and why it matters.

To learn more about Equality Florida and to plug in, please visit HERE. 

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.

This week Joe talks to Colby Martin, author of Unclobbered and The Shift.

This week is person for Joe as Colby Martin's book Unclobbered was the first book handed to him during his time of re-examining queer inclusion within the church. He talks to Colby about how he started that work, what he's doing now and how people can be a part of that.

To learn more about Colby, his work or to contact him about spiritual coaching please visit his website HERE. 

To help support the ongoing work of Shift Happens, click HERE.

Wild Goose Festival is a transformational community grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Click the link to get all the info about this year's festival. Make sure to use the code A - MZN at check out for a $50 discount on any single adult ticket.

See every side of every news story. Read the news from multiple perspectives.
See through media bias with reliable news from local and international sources.To get your 40% discount to Ground News, click HERE.

Visit The Slippery Slope Store for your exvangelical shirt needs. New merch coming soon. Use promo code therealjoesmith10 for 10% of your orders.

If you are a Florida parent and looking to be more proactive or learning about advocacy work please visit Equality Florida's Parenting with Pride.

For counseling from anywhere please check out The Christian Closet. If you would like to support the work of The Christian Closet please go to Affirming Therapy to donate.