Guest-host Peterson Toscano shares moving, insightful, and transformational portions of his Quakers Today podcast, dealing with all kinds of issues of interest to all listeners, things like spirituality, inclusion/separation, transgender understandings, manumission & reparations from slavery, abusive religion, and deep, personal, transformation. Below is some of the detail & lots of links.
Writer Anne E.G. Nydam reads an excerpt from her short story, “The Conduits.” You can read the entire story in the November 2022 Fiction edition of Friends Journal. Click here to hear Anne reading the whole story. Cai Quirk, a trans and genderqueer photographer, focuses on the intersections of gender diversity and spirituality throughout history. We also look at a new graphic novel about a radical, eccentric prophet against slavery. Marcus Rediker told the story in his 2017 book, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist. Lucy Duncan and Rob Peagler from Reparation.Works discuss the questions that help guide their work. Avis Wanda McClinton talks about Manumissions. Hayden Hobby, raised in an evangelical church, reflects on leaving an abusive God and finding a new way of expressing faith. Karla Jay, the global ministries coordinator for Friends United Meeting, speaks about her experience of the Asbery Revival. Anthony Kirk, a transgender pastor, shares a Bible passage that has been central to his spiritual and gender journey. Kathleen B. Wilson created the free on-line pamphlet Quaker Thomas Kelly: Life from the Center. , and a couple passages are read by Alissa Vanderbark, a Quaker Voluntary Service fellow, and Jonah Sutton-Morse, a member of the Society of Friends Discord group. Quakers Today is the companion podcast to Friends Journal and other Friends Publishing Corporation (FPC) content online. Season One of Quakers Today has been sponsored by Quaker Voluntary Service (QVS).
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