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Juneteenth: A Truer Independence Day for All Americans

Today is Juneteenth—Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. A day for all Americans. As our friend Catherine Cymone Fourshey, faculty director of Bucknell’s Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures, explained in today’s Daily Item: “This should be, in a way, the actual Independence Day for everyone in the United States because this is the moment when, after going through the American…

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🚨 New Episode: Grave Robbers and Resurrection What does the story of Lazarus have to do with queer liberation? Conversion therapy? Comedy? Cuba? In the new season of Bubble and Squeak, I explore these connections with two remarkable guests: 🕊️ Fr. James Martin, SJ, on his new book Come Forth and what it means to be called out of the tomb. 📚 Lucas Wilson, editor of Shame, Sex, Attraction, shares raw, powerful stories from survivors of conversion therapy. 🎭 And I revisit my own journey through the ex-gay movement with excerpts from my play Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House. 🌴 Plus: A reflection from María la Gorda, Cuba, where a 1960 labor camp foreshadowed later persecution of queer people under the revolution. Whether you’re LGBTQ+, faith-rooted, or just seeking stories of resilience, this episode invites you to reflect on what needs unbinding in your own life. 📺 Watch the play: www.youtube.com/p2son #BubbleAndSqueak #QueerFaith #Lazarus #ConversionTherapy #JamesMartinSJ #LucasWilson #ResurrectionStories #QueerLiberation 🐦 Twitter (X) Post New on Bubble & Squeak: 🕊️ Fr. James Martin on Lazarus 🎭 My Homo No Mo play 📚 Lucas Wilson on conversion therapy 🌴 A sound slice from Cuba’s forgotten labor camps Resurrection gets personal. 🎧 #LGBTQFaith #ConversionTherapy #JamesMartinSJ #QueerLiberation Let me know if you'd like a carousel post or image quote to go with these!

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When the Church Welcomes All ( BUT Some Conditions Apply!)

All Welcome!!* *Some Restrictions Apply; You Know Who You Are A recording of a customer relations call to a Church Supply Company. How to "welcome" those you do not ever want to see again?

When the Church is Just not Into You The latest episode of Bubble and Squeak podcast features a silly satire about those churches that try to make everyone feel welcome, so they offer a welcome pack. The caller, from First Baptist Church, speaks with Marvin, from the Shekinah Glory Christian Books and Church Supplies Store. She has an odd request thought. Do you have a welcome pack for a group…

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Transgender and the Bible

See the film that has changed the way scholars look at gender in the Bible! What Does the Bible Say about Transgender and Gender Non-Binary People? Well, nothing directly, but there are stories in the Bible that feature people who transgress and transcend gender norms both in the roles they take on and in their personal presentation–the clothes they wear and the way they look. This film looks…

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Witches, Barbie, and Quakers!

If you are looking for a short form podcast that I packed with unexpected and thoughtful conversation, I humbly recommend Quakers Today, a show I host and produce. The guests stimulate and enlighten. Here are two recent episodes. Actress and eco-activist Daryl Hannah speaks with host Peterson Toscano about her announcement that “Mattel intends to go 100 percent plastic-free by 2030 in all their…

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Anxiety Blues

Our Bubble&Squeak show today comes in three parts Listen on SoundCloud or wherever you get podcasts Part one: Singer Songwriter Linda Jay Reed shares her creation process. Part two: Linda Reed sings the song Anxiety BluesPart three: a SoundSlice from an island in the Philippines Part One: Linda Jay Reed wrote her first song on guitar when she was 17 years old. She has continued the practice…

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Rebooted! Ex-Gay Watch is back

The ugliness is back and so are the hard working volunteers who expose the sneaky, tricky conversion therapists and their attempts to undermine the health and wellness of LGBT+ people. Ex-Gay Watch is BACK

David Robert avatar Since the early 2000’s Mike Airhart, David Roberts, and volunteer authors at Ex-Gay Watch kept their eyes on the workings of the Conversion Therapy world and its leaders. They broke many stories and informed both the public and press about the many ways conversion therapists (most who never had any actual training in counseling, therapy, or theology) inserted themselves into…

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I'm Back!

Since 2018 I blogged directly on my website, but I recently revamped the entire site to reflect the new direction my work has been going. (See the old site on Internet Archive Wayback Machine.) Since before the start of the Pandemic in 2020, I was slowly transitioning my work from stages to on-line platforms. My preferred platform is podcasting, and now I produce over five of them with more in…

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Don Durham--Other Texts

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Giants in the Land Face a Different Spirit--Numbers 13, 14

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Shame, Pride, and Saying NO to Self-Doubt

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Thomas the Movement Skeptic--John 20: 19-29

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Esther: A Liberative Gathering of Women, Exiled Jews, and Eunuchs

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Paul in Acts--A Self-Professed Thug for Jesus?

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Bisexual Lovers in the Hands of a Peevish God -- I Samuel 18

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Midwives: Beautiful, Splendid Leaders of Resistance -- Exodus 1:15-22

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Jesus and the Glory Seekers: Mark 10: 35-45