The Pour Over Podcast

We at The Pour Over Podcast thought given our cultural moment and climate surrounding the conversation of LGBTQ people this would be a good re-release. Hopefully re-listening to this episode can humanize this conversation, and wherever you fall or don't fall religiously, and bring us all into better neighborly love and to see people in the LGBTQ community worthy of dignity, love, respect and equality. Bridget brings a powerful voice and perspective to this conversation!

Bridgets website (find her book, blog and social channels here) : https://www.meditationsofatravelingnun.com

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In this episode we have Alex Wait of The Epics Podcast where he shares stories to fight hate and marginalization to help chart better paths forward in our world and we LOVE that at Peaks & Valleys. Alex opens up and shares his journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and navigating life with ADHD in a world built for neurotypical people. His story and perspective is challenging, beautiful and hopefully liberatory in the way we view the diversity of people in the world around us. We then have a conversation about his own podcast and the work he is doing to break down the binaries many of us have been given and better ways to live in the rich diverse world we inhabit.

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This episode is a re-release we felt for our culture and sociopolitical moment was a good refresher for having better conversations around understanding one another and all around better community! We hope you enjoy this episode and it helps you find better paths forward and leads to flourishing mental health for you and others.

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This episode is very special. We got to share the table with and hold two journeys from two beautiful souls. We were joined by Hannah Lloyd and Noah Althoff to share their journey of navigating being in the calvinistic/reformed mode of evangelicalism. We explore what their individual experiences were, where they overlapped and what broke that tradition for them. We also talked their views of mental health within that tradition and some of their own personal experiences with their own mental health. We land on seeing life in a more liberating way after that mode of evangelicalism and some good steps and charting better paths forward.

Gary Alan Taylor from Holy Heretics has some good words here: https://www.sophiasociety.org/blog/original-theobros-faith-deconstruction

Church Clarity: https://www.churchclarity.org

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In this episode we have a guest co-host Timothy Lloyd to talk all things resisting Christian Nationalism. Tim is deeply committed to Jesus, but also resisting oppressive forms of Christianity like Christian Nationalism and seeing all humans flourish. We talk what is Christian Nationalism, why we resist it, why others should speak up against it and how it affects our non-religious, non-straight, immigrant, or other religious neighbor. 

Resources for resisting Christian Nationalism: https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org

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Welcome to the Christmas Special of The Pour Over Podcast! We hope you have a great holiday season and a smooth mental health experience through the many complications that come with this time of year. In this episode we talk about the importance of LGBTQ inclusion and stepping into other peoples experience and social location. We round out by talking harmful views of mental health from the evangelical community and debriefing from what was a healing and refreshing event for both of us.

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Mentioned In This Episode:

Mad Priest Coffee: https://madpriestcoffee.com

The New Evangelicals: https://www.instagram.com/thenewevangelicals/?hl=en

April Ajoy: https://www.instagram.com/aprilajoy/?hl=en

Music: We Wish You A Merry Christmas by August Burns Red

Content and trigger warning: mentions of suicide

In this episode we sit down with our friend and creative entrepreneur/barista Dylan Studt. We have a conversation about having outlets for your mental health and his own experiences with mental health and what he has observed as a peer. We round this conversation out on Dylan giving us ways to chart better paths forward in supporting youth in their mental health journeys and ways to create safe spaces for those youth and young adults that are on the margins (race, LGBTQ, religious margins AKA not christianity).

The Trevor Project (LGBTQ youth mental health resource): https://www.thetrevorproject.org

Homeless Youth Resources: https://www.homelessyouth.org/en/

Mental Health Coalition Youth/Young Adult Resources: https://www.thementalhealthcoalition.org/resource-library/?resources_category=youth-young-adults

NAMI Youth/Young Adults: https://www.nami.org/Search?searchtext=youth&searchmode=anyword

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In this episode, your hosts Jonathan and Kyle will be responding to a terrible take on mental health from within the church that actually harms people and does not lead to human flourishing. We directly confront the harmful views and deconstruct them and then help chart some better paths forward to moving away from these harmful views.

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In this episode we have have a conversation with Mike Maeshiro about LGBTQ, coming out, navigating sexuality in evangelical spaces and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Mike shares his own story and gives us some encouragement and tools for challenging our own beliefs around this conversation. We also talk about anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and resisting that for the sake of the LGBTQ people in our lives and around us.

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