A Queer Easter Vigil: resurrection after religious trauma
APR 19, 202522 MIN
A Queer Easter Vigil: resurrection after religious trauma
APR 19, 202522 MIN
Description
<p>I offer up some reflections moving from Jesus's path to the cross into those twilit hours before he rose. I interweave my own story of deep trauma and hope of healing on the way. After church hurt and religious trauma, how do we rise to new spiritual life?</p><p>Content warning: discussions of religious trauma and queerphobia; brief, non-specific suicide mention.</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10CbcbJyR8WaTR_6uXWvVCvfPEj1bgAMJ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108614890261052211402&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Click here for an episode transcript</a>.</p><p><a href="https://beltmag.com/there-are-queer-children-here/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Click here for the article mentioned in the episode</a> (cw anti-trans violence).</p><p>Taize music: "Within Our Darkest Night," <a href="https://youtu.be/RyG96nXsOXE?si=nLWUwbALaR96u_Pk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">performed by UUSantaMonica</a>.</p>