Thereafter

On today's episode we talk about our experiences with coming out later in life and being newly out baby queers in the world. 

If you enjoy listening to the show, please consider heading over to apple podcasts to rate and review us. If you really enjoy the show, we would love to see you in our Thereafter Patreon! Also, look for us on social media and shoot us a message to say hello, or chat with us in Twitter spaces on Tuesday mornings in deconstruction coffee hour!

Remember, PROMO Code for “Christian Nationalism and the Future of Democracy” event in Denver hosted by our friends at Straight White American Jesus is: "Left" and you can register for the event HERE: https://www.bradonishi.com/nationalism/

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This week Cortland and Meghan sit down with Jon Carl Lewis, creator of Sex & the Gay Christian. Jon is a spiritual director that has created space as a gay Christian man for queer Christians that are seeking to live an integrated sexual and spirtiual life. Jon shares a bit of his history and upbringing, and then chats about sex positivity, “Biblical” sexual ethics, and how individuals discover their sexuality and spirituality. Please check out Jon’s website, and give him a follow @sexgaychristian on Twitter. Jon’s website offers information about spiritual direction, his book project, several LGBTQIA+ resources, and more!

If you enjoy listening to the show, please consider heading over to apple podcasts to rate and review us. If you really enjoy the show, we would love to see you in our Thereafter Patreon! Also, look for us on social media and shoot us a message to say hello, or chat with us in Twitter spaces on Tuesday mornings in deconstruction coffee hour!

Finally,PROMO Code for “Christian Nationalism and the Future of Democracy” event in Denver hosted by our friends at Straight White American Jesus is: Left

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This week we had the privilege of sitting down for a conversation with Chrissy Stroop. Chrissy is an important voice in the exvangelical and post-Christian conversation and brings so much to that conversation through her work as a scholar, researcher, author, and educator. She is a Senior correspondent for @RDispatches, columnist for @openDemocracy, as well as a speaker and writer for hire. She is the co-editor of Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church (available here: https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Pews-Stories-Leaving-Church/dp/1946093076). 

You can follow her on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/C_Stroop

And on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/chrissystroop/

Visit her at her website https://cstroop.com/ and if you would like to support the work she is doing please consider joining her patreon HERE: https://www.patreon.com/cstroop

If you are interested in joining the discord server Chrissy mentions in the interview you can use this invite link: https://t.co/wySo4wnPwK 

Lastly, we'd love for you to join the Thereafter Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThereafterPod

As always, we love hearing from our listeners. Please consider leaving a rate and review on Apple Podcasts and reach out to say hello on social media!

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Today on the pod we sit down for a conversation with Damon Garcia to discuss his story of faith and his new book The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus (Broadleaf Books, 2022) (available now wherever you buy books). Damon Garcia (he/him) is a writer, video essayist, and public theologian. His work is centered around the intersection between liberation and faith. He lives in Santa Maria, California.

Follow Damon’s work on Twitter and Instagram @whoisdamon

https://twitter.com/whoisdamon

https://www.instagram.com/whoisdamon/

Visit his website at DamonGarcia.com

Subscribe to his YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/damongarcia

On our #TwitBits intro today we discuss some heavy topics (TW/CW we discuss transphobia and threats toward the trans community).

If you want to skip straight to the interview feel free to jump ahead to the 32min mark.

We mention Matthew Paul Turner in this discussion and wanted to link to his twitter here. If you don’t follow MPT yet, you should go give him a follow and if you have a moment to send some encouragement his way we’d love it if you would go send him some love on Twitter (https://twitter.com/HeyMPT).

We also mention the event we will be attending that Brad Onishi from Straight White American Jesus Podcast is hosting in Denver this Nov. If you are interested in attending (in person or virtually) head over to find out more info and snag a ticket here: https://www.bradonishi.com/nationalism/

Lastly, we'd love for you to join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThereafterPod

As always, we love hearing from our listeners. Please consider leaving a rate and review on Apple Podcasts and reach out to say hello on social media!

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On today's episode we sit down with friend of the show Ashlee' Thomas for a candid conversation about faith change, intersectionality, and being uncomfortable. Ashlee' was one of the folks we had the pleasure of learning from at our Portland meetup earlier this year and we couldn't wait to have her on the show! You can follow her on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/unashamedly_ashlee/

If you enjoyed today's conversation and want to throw a little something Ashlee's way as a thank you (or early wedding gift) you can send her any amount through Venmo here: https://account.venmo.com/u/ashlee-thomas-5

For our TwitBits segment today we talk a little bit about the conversations on twitter that stemmed from Lecrae's twitter thread on the "right way to deconstruct" (https://twitter.com/lecrae/status/1570057592595963904?s=20&t=UpsPXxu_eWJdKe-E_dkY9g). We also talk a bit about what the Bible says about sex and Carl Lentz's return to social media. 

If you want to skip straight to the interview you can jump ahead to 28:40 to get right into the conversation with Ashlee'.

We'd love for you to join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ThereafterPod

As always, we love hearing from our listeners. Please consider leaving a rate and review on Apple Podcasts and reach out to say hello on social media!

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No interview on the pod today. Instead Meghan and Cortland sit down to discuss their relationship with certainty and how it has evolved throughout their deconstruction processes so far. 

There is a brief intro where we explain that we had originally recorded this as our Season Premier and instead opted to release it as episode two following our live from Wild Goose episode last week. In #TwitBits we talk about #StrikeOutHomophobia which is a walkout and rally being held across the US on Oct. 11th. You can find more info about this through this tweet: https://twitter.com/REAP_LGBTQ/status/1567218092698402817.

At one point in the intro Cortland talks about a sex researcher and can't remember their name. *note from Cortland "I'm not sure how I entirely blanked and didn't even get close to saying Dr. Eric Sprankle, but that is who I was trying to reference. You can find Dr. Sprankle on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DrSprankle

We are also launching our Patreon today, which we discuss towards the end of the episode. If you are interested in becoming a Patron please go check out the Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/ThereafterPod

As always, we love hearing from our listeners. Please consider leaving a rate and review on Apple Podcasts and reach out to say hello on social media!

Twitter: @ThereafterPod, @CortlandCoffey, @ThePursuingLife

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We're back! Kicking off season 3 of Thereafter podcast with our LIVE episode recorded this summer at Wild Goose Fest. On this episode Meghan and Cortland have a conversation with return guest Josh Scott from Grace Pointe Church in Nashville, TN. 

For our intro and #TwitBits section of the pod we ramble a bit about the recent Matt Chandler "scandal" and some of the discourse that has been happening online about The Billy Graham Rule and what is appropriate when it comes to DM's. 

Meghan mentions a tweet/article from @LindsayFickas which can be found here: https://twitter.com/lindsayfickas/status/1566841309826015232?s=21&t=pMkhxMBP-Vti3Q7Fe1TEuw.

If you want to find out more about Josh Scott you can follow him around the web in the following places. 

https://twitter.com/josh_a_scott

https://www.instagram.com/josh_a_scott/

https://www.tiktok.com/@josh_a_scott

As always, we love hearing from our listeners. Please consider leaving a rate and review on Apple Podcasts and reach out to say hello on social media!

Twitter: @ThereafterPod, @CortlandCoffey, @ThePursuingLife

Instagram: @ThereafterPodcast, @CortlandCoffey, @ThePursuingLife

On our season 2 finale of the pod we bring back one of our favorite guests from the season, Tori Williams Douglas! You may have listened to our conversation with Tori earlier in the season where we talked a bit about her story and the work she's doing through White Homework and Go Home Bible You're Drunk. 

On this episode we're talking about solo-sex, pleasure, and orgasms! No intro for this episode, so get ready to jump right into our conversation. 

If you didn't catch our conversation with Tori from earlier in the season, Tori is an anti-racist writer, educator, and podcaster in addition to being one of our favorite follows on twitter! You may know her as Tori Glass which is her handle on Twitter and Instagram. Go give her a follow and please support her work which you can find all the info for on her website https://www.toriglass.com/

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Today we sit down with George Azar, author of "My Gay Church Days" (https://www.mygaychurchdays.com/). We talk about growing up, finding Jesus and later in the story finding himself. George was an absolute treat to talk with and we're so excited to share this conversation! In addition to the book George has been podcasting over at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-gay-church-days/id1596348244 so don't forget to go give him a follow over there as well! 

We talk, in our intro, about our thoughts coming off of our PDX meetup where we got to hang out with some friends from the pod. If you want to skip straight to the interview feel free to skip ahead to 19:30.

Make sure to follow George on Twitter and instagram via the links below.

https://twitter.com/mygaychurchdays

https://www.instagram.com/mygaychurchdays/

As always, we love hearing from our listeners. Please consider leaving a rate and review on Apple Podcasts and reach out to say hello on social media!

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This week was extra special for us because we had the opportunity to sit down with one of the hosts of one of our favorite podcasts (Mega the Podcast)! We cover a TON of topics in this interview from Holly’s background growing up in evangelicalism to her work over the past 20+ years in the world of comedy! We enjoyed every moment of this interview and hope you do as well.

Holly Laurent is an LA based writer and performer. She is the creator and host of the hit podcast MEGA, and co-host and producer of It's a Wonderful Lie (audiochuck) Formerly, Holly was a featured contributor and writer on the nationally syndicated radio variety show Live From Here (NPR) and the Onion News Network. She is an alumnus of the Second City mainstage in Chicago where she wrote and performed three critically acclaimed revues. She toured with the Second City national touring company and was a featured performer at the TBS Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Holly holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College and is a founding member of the longstanding improv group The Reckoning. Her film and television credits include A.P. Bio (NBC), All Rise (CBS All Access), Tacoma FD (truTV), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Food: The Source of Life (Adult Swim), Key & Peele (Comedy Central), Barely Famous (VH1), Funny or Die: Exclusives and The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS). Holly’s film Brought to You by Satan, which she wrote and directed, premiered in festivals in 2020. Her writing has been featured in Defenestration Magazine and Mayday Magazine. Her essay, Villain, was Nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.

In addition to all the links in the above bio, we also wanted to include a direct link to the Mega patreon which you can join to help support the work as well as get access to the mini episodes Holly mentions in the interview. You can join their patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/megathepodcast

Our intro to the show this week is pretty short and to be honest continues to be pretty heavy. There is just too many painful things continuing to happen in our world. If you want to skip straight to the interview feel free to skip ahead to 15:50.

Follow Holly on Twitter and instagram via the links below.

https://twitter.com/laurentholly

https://www.instagram.com/hollylaurent/

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