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The flags are at half mast for a woman who never held office. That alone tells you something about who Dolly Parton was.

Jaisa and Rachael honor her, and sit with the thing that keeps surfacing as the tributes come in. Conservative Christians and drag queens. The LGBTQ community, the Black community, and the Pentecostal church that raised her. Almost nobody gets claimed by all of those rooms, and she managed it without softening who she was.

They walk through the one room cabin, the eleven siblings, the father who never learned to read. Then the part this show cares about most. Dolly believed there was a God spark in every person and made it her job to go looking for it. She called herself spiritual rather than religious, and refused, repeatedly and on the record, to judge anybody.

Hard to argue with love.

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Jaisa and Rachael hit record on this one at the kitchen table, mid mental breakdown, on the theory that they could not possibly be the only ones.

August 27 was the lunar eclipse in Pisces, and it closed an eclipse cycle that opened in September 2024. Which happens to be the exact month Spirit Outspoken launched. Two years of the Virgo Pisces axis doing its work, and neither of them came out the other side as the same person.

In this episode they get into what that cycle has actually been asking. Virgo wants order and analysis and the reassurance that if you just get everything right, you will be safe. Pisces wants surrender, and faith in what cannot be proven or controlled. Sitting between those two is deeply uncomfortable, and this is an honest account of that discomfort from inside it.

Rachael talks about the chameleon years and what it costs to finally have a voice. Jaisa talks about grieving an identity she spent a career building, and the strange experience of feeling something in your body long before your mind catches up.

If you have mutable placements, or you have just felt unrecognizable to yourself lately, you are not alone. Come lament in the comments.

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Episode 65: Created with Purpose - Faith & Astrology w/ Debra Silverman

Episode 80: Finding Her Voice: How Songwriting & Healing Led to True Faith w/ Alana Springsteen

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Every time we talk about loving our LGBTQ neighbors, the same question shows up in our comments: isn't it our job as Christians to point out sin?

In this bonus episode, priest and public theologian Joash P. Thomas answers it. The only people Jesus talks about judgment with are religious leaders abusing their power. Everyone else gets grace. Joash argues the pressure to correct other people never came from Jesus, it came from colonizers and the western church that learned its theology from them, and he makes his case for LGBTQ inclusion straight from the book of Acts, where the Spirit is always out ahead and the church struggles to keep up.

He also answers the question a family member really asked him, "would you ever marry the gays," with a sacramental answer we did not see coming.

Short episode, big exhale. It brings the whole thing back to love, which was always the point.

Our guest: Joash P. Thomas is a priest, public theologian, and the author of The Justice of Jesus.
 Follow Joash: Instagram @joashpthomas TikTok: @joashpthomas
Substack: https://substack.com/@joashpthomas
Website: https://www.joashpthomas.com/
Order his book, The Justice of Jesus, on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4yvcKmI

If you enjoyed this episode be sure to check out:

Episode 58: The 1946 Mistake That Changed Christianity: How “Homosexual” Entered the Bible

Episode 59: What We Got Wrong About Homosexuality: Culture, Politis & The Church (Part 2)

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If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s more happening around you than what you can see, this conversation is for you.

Kathleen Ives spent kindergarten through 12th grade in Catholic school, eventually swung about as close to atheism as you can get, and today works as a psychic medium and intuitive guide. Somewhere along the way, Jesus reentered the picture unexpectedly. She didn’t go looking for him, and for a long time, she resisted what she was experiencing.

In this conversation, Jaisa and Rachael talk with Kathleen about what it actually means to connect with spirit, how she experiences the unseen world, and why ideas that can sound “woo woo” begin to feel very different when viewed through the lens of energy, frequency, and curiosity rather than fear.

They explore signs, synchronicities, intuition, and the possibility that there may be far more happening around us than we typically notice.

And then the conversation goes somewhere Kathleen never expected: back to Jesus. Not as a figure we’re meant to hand our power over to, but as a healer whose life and teachings may have been pointing toward what is possible within all of us. For Kathleen, Mary Magdalene became an unexpected doorway back to understanding him - and that opens up an entirely different conversation about faith, power, and spirituality.

This episode is an invitation to stay curious about the unseen, loosen our certainty, and consider what might become possible when we stop being afraid of what we don’t yet understand.

Our guest: Kathleen Ives is a spirit medium, intuitive coach, death educator and author who walks women through life's most tender seasons of change, grief and growth. Her work is a reminder that even in the heaviest chapters, it is safe to feel good again. 

Book A Session/Discount Code: Visit KathleenIves.com to book your session. Enter “SPIRITOUTSPOKEN” at checkout to receive 10% off.

Purchase Kathleen’s Book: Order your copy of “7 Ways to Live In-JOY Today” on Amazon

Follow Kathleen: Instagram: @kathleenives_ 

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Episode 64: Loved Ones Never Leave Us – A Psychic Medium on the Afterlife w/ Sean Collyns

Episode 79: Journey Beyond the Veil – Finding Healing Through Mediumship w/ Camille McConnell

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What if the fear, chaos and searching all come from one belief, that we're separate from God, from one another, and from the parts of ourselves we were taught to reject? Taylor Perkins joins Jaisa and Rachael for a conversation about union, faith, and the illusion of separation.

Taylor's argument is that the divine was never something outside of us we're straining to reach. We get into Jesus and Krishna, why Jesus kept talking about weddings and bridal chambers, and what "I and the Father are one" actually claims.

Then it gets personal. Reality is a mirror, so the pieces of ourselves we bury keep showing up outside of us. Taylor shares what finally moved a 20 year struggle, and it wasn't fighting harder. 

Our guest: Taylor Perkins is a spiritual teacher weaving the Gnostic gospels, the Bhagavad Gita and eastern contemplative traditions into one thesis about union. Follow Taylor: Instagram @iamtaylorperkins  TikTok: @iamtaylorperkins.backup

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Episode 73: The Language of Energy - Intuition, Vibration & Spiritual Guidance w/ Sonia Choquette

Episode 68: Do Souls Evolve? Soul Levels, Reincarnation & Compassion w/ Ainslie MacLeod

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What if your child isn't giving you a hard time, but telling you exactly what they need? In this episode Jaisa and Rachael use each child's moon sign as a map to what makes them feel safe, what makes them feel threatened, and how they process big emotions.

They open with Proverbs 22:6 and the Hebrew scholarship that reframes "train up a child" as parenting toward a child's natural bend, not forcing them straight, and how the birth chart illustrates that every child is divinely and uniquely made. Then they walk through all 12 moon signs, what each child needs, what to avoid, and the God given design in each, with real stories from their own homes, and close with a simple way to teach kids their own charts.

If you enjoyed this episode be sure to check out:

Episode 90 Your Moon Sign Is Your Emotional Blueprint

Episode 82: How to Love and Care for Every Enneagram Type w/ Abbey Howe

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"No sex before marriage" isn't actually in the Bible, and neither is the single "biblical marriage" purity culture sold us. Jaisa and Rachael sit down with Bible scholar Mattie Mae Motl to ask what scripture really says about sex, gender, and sexuality once you strip away the rules we inherited.

They dig into what "sexual immorality" actually meant (exploitative sex, not premarital sex), how religion has long been used to control women's bodies, and why the body is an access to the divine, not an obstacle to it. Mattie shares her own purity culture upbringing, why "praying the gay away" is harmful, why sexuality is a spectrum, and what the Trevor Project data says about affirming homes. It closes on reading the Bible through love of God and neighbor, raising kids around sex without shame, and a little astrology to send us off.

About our guest: Mattie Mae Motl is a Bible scholar and PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, a writer, creator, mother, and an openly queer voice in this space.

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If you enjoyed this episode be sure to check out:
 
Episode 59 - What We Got Wrong About Homosexuality: Culture, Politics & The Church (Part 2)

Episode 58 - The 1946 Mistake that Changed Christianity: How "Homosexual" Entered the Bible

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Deconstruction isn't a crisis of faith, it's a process, and it turns out that process has stages. this week jaisa and rachael walk through the five researched stages of faith deconstruction and reconstruction, and share where they've each landed.

It starts with the catalyst, the wound or question or piece of biblical history that first makes you pause. then questioning and research, where the anxiety of "is any of this true?" lives. then grief, because deconstruction really does cost you certainty, community, and the version of god you were handed. then deconstruction proper, where you decide what stays and read scripture through the fourfold lens the early church used. and finally reconstruction or release, and the question underneath all of it: what does faith look like when it's chosen, not inherited?

Wherever you are in it, you're exactly where you're supposed to be.

Go deeper on the fourfold lens: we break it down through the hot-button Christian topics in our ebook.

If you enjoyed this episode be sure to check out:

Episode 80: Finding Her Voice: How Songwriting & Healing Led to True Faith w/ Alana Springsteen 

Episode 63: How Studying Buddhism Can Deepen a Jesus Centered Faith w/ Zach Helton 

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Our friend Joash P. Thomas is back on Spirit Outspoken. He's a priest, a public theologian, and the author of The Justice of Jesus, and this conversation goes deep into mysticism, empire, and the parts of church history nobody taught us in Sunday school.

We start with Mother Mary. Joash opens up about his own mystical experiences with her, and how becoming open to acknowledging the saints can be such a beautiful, supplemental expansion of our faith. From there we talk guardian angels, patron saints, and the communion of saints described in Hebrews 12.

Then we go deeper into history. Joash walks us through the colonial roots of empire, including the surprising, colonial era origin of the phrase "the Great Commission," and why understanding that history frees us from the pressure to convert anyone to our way of thinking. The beauty in what he reveals brings us back to the whole point of the gospels, which is simply to love.

If you've ever felt like your mysticism and your Christianity were at odds, or wondered where some of these teachings actually came from, this episode is for you.

Topics covered: Mother Mary and mystical experience, guardian angels and patron saints, the communion of saints, the colonial history of empire and the Great Commission, and rediscovering love as the true point of the gospel.

Follow Joash P. Thomas: @joashpthomas (Instagram) / @joashpthomas (TikTok)
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If you loved this conversation, make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss what's coming next, and here are a few more episodes we think you'll want to check out.

Episode 55: Decolonizing the Church: The Justice of Jesus w/ Joash P Thomas

Episode 86: When the Church Gave Permission for Colonization

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In this episode, Jaisa and Rachael break down one of astrology's most misunderstood placements and why it might be the most important one you've never paid attention to.  Your moon sign,  who you are when the performance is over. When you're home. When nobody's watching.

They start with the science. The moon pulls ocean tides. It raises and lowers the earth's crust by 30 centimeters. It shifts human sleep cycles, hormonal patterns, and psychiatric episodes. If the moon can do all of that to physical matter, what is it doing to the 60% water that makes up your body?

Then Jaisa shares a stunning synchronicity. A divine appointment that literally stopped traffic to connect her with another cancer mom, and how her moon omens reading that same night explained every single moment of it in real time.

From there they walk through all 12 moon signs. The core emotional need of each one. What it looks like when you're thriving in it. And what happens when you're not.

You'll leave this episode knowing yourself in a completely different way.

This is astrology as a tool for spiritual self-understanding. Not fortune-telling. Not witchcraft. Just a language, one that God can use to speak to you, if you let Him.

In this episode:

•The real science behind how the moon affects your body, your sleep, and your emotions

•Jaisa’s story of divine intervention through a drawbridge in Duluth

•The difference between your sun sign and your moon sign, and why the moon hits different

•A full breakdown of all 12 moon signs: healthy, unhealthy, and what your core need really is

•How understanding moon signs transforms your relationships, your parenting, and your self-compassion

Find your moon sign:  grab your birth date, birth city, and birth time and run a free birth chart at cafeastrology.com

If you enjoyed this episode be sure to check out:

Episode 62: Using Astrology & Numerology to Reflect and Grow

Episode 82: How to Love and Care for Every Enneagram Type

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