Queerfully Made

Aaron Kelly and Ben Nicholson
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Queerfully Made tackles faith, gender, sexuality, and the intersection of them all. Ex-evangelical leaders Aaron Kelly and Ben Nicholson, once church insiders, host raw stories from LGBTQ+ Christians, ex-Christians, pastors, ex-pastors and sharp experts. Closeted and scared? Healing from church wounds? An ally ready to stand up but needing insight? We’re here to unpack identity, reforge spirituality, and build a fierce, inclusive community. Subscribe today! Follow us at www.instagram.com/queerfully.made

  1. há 23 h

    The Christian Ethicist Who Stopped Standing By | Rev. Dr. David Gushee | Queerfully Made S2 E15

    Follow Queerfully Made on Spotify so the next episode lands in your queue. Aaron studied this man's textbook at Bible college. Twenty years later, Rev Dr David P. Gushee is on the podcast telling us about the dinner that changed everything. A man he had never met took him out, quoted Gushee's own book back at him, and told him he was being a bystander when it came to LGBTQ people. Gushee did not argue. He said the man was right. What came next was Changing Our Mind, the book that cost one of America's most widely read evangelical ethicists his place in the evangelical world. We talk about the harm he watched up close, why sexuality became the hill the church chose to die on, and where he is actually seeing things change. It ends with three answers we did not expect: what he would say to a young queer person sitting scared in an evangelical church, what he would say to that church's pastor, and what he would say to the pastor who already agrees but is too frightened to say so. "You don't have to do anything to be a bystander. You just keep standing by." Rev Dr David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University. His new book, Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees, is out this week with Orbis. Find him at davidpgushee.com. Content warning: this episode discusses suicide and religious trauma. Instagram and TikTok: @queerfully.made

    The Christian Ethicist Who Stopped Standing By | Rev. Dr. David Gushee | Queerfully Made S2 E15

  2. 25 de ago.

    Comedy, Faith & Leaving Religion | Reuben Kaye

    He got death threats for a joke. He left the synagogue two days after his bar mitzvah. And he might be the warmest person to ever tell you religion is a control system. Aaron and Ben sit down with Reuben Kaye, cabaret superstar, comedian and drag artist, for the most provocation-forward conversation of the season. Reuben is unapologetically anti-institution, but underneath the edge is something that sounds a lot like this show: systems, not people. The ones caught inside are victims too. We get into the joke that broke the internet, the night he talked a man out of setting him on fire, and the difference between personal faith and the institutions built on top of it. As Reuben puts it: "be a good human. everything else is dressing on the salad." Follow Queerfully Made on Spotify so the next episode lands straight in your queue. Find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube @queerfully.made

    Comedy, Faith & Leaving Religion | Reuben Kaye

  3. 18 de ago.

    RePlanted, Finding Community After Leaving The Church | ReMade Series Pt.3 | Aaron Kelly & Ben Nicholson

    You can leave church and still lose the community that came with it. This episode is about what comes after. In the final part of the ReMade series, Aaron and Ben talk about the very real grief of losing church community, and the equally real work of building something better in its place. They get into the difference between community and control, why you only really need about five good friends, and the four words (borrowed from Simon Sinek) that might change one of your friendships: do you have eight minutes? This is a hosts-only episode, no guest, just Aaron and Ben closing out the ReMade series (Rediscover, ReWilded, RePlanted). “it was never community we were scared of. it was control.” Instagram: @queerfully.made  ·  TikTok: @queerfully.made  ·  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@queerfullymade follow queerfully made on spotify so the next episode lands in your queue

    RePlanted, Finding Community After Leaving The Church | ReMade Series Pt.3 | Aaron Kelly & Ben Nicholson

  4. 4 de ago.

    Allyship, Deconstruction & Losing a Church | Matt Glover

    He trained for ten years to be a minister and thought he'd do it for life. Then Matt Glover backed marriage equality, and it cost him his church. Aaron and Ben sit down with Matt, a former Baptist minister who supported same-sex marriage years before the plebiscite and lost his role, his career, and a community for it. He'll correct you on one thing though: he wasn't fired, he resigned and walked away. And he says he'd go back to that room today and say thank you. It's a conversation about allyship that never felt like a stand, the difference between a job and a calling, and the friend named Finn who gently detonated everything Matt thought he knew. Matt is now a counsellor, and he shares what he sees most in his room today: spiritual abuse and deconstruction. As Matt puts it: "It's okay to not know things and just be kind." Follow Queerfully Made on Spotify so the next episode lands straight in your queue. Find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube @queerfully.made

    Allyship, Deconstruction & Losing a Church | Matt Glover

  5. 28 de jul.

    Queering Christianity | Rev. Brandan Robertson | Queerfully Made S2 Ep11

    what happens to your faith when you stop believing in a god of fear? reverend brandan robertson, the tiktok pastor and author of queer and christian, joins aaron and ben for one of the most hopeful conversations we've had. brandan grew up in maryland fundamentalism, got saved at 12, went through conversion therapy at moody bible institute, and was named in time magazine in 2015 before the evangelical world turned on him. he came out of it not bitter but freer. we talk about queering christianity, the stories nobody preached us growing up, and why the queer community is far more spiritual than the world assumes. as brandan puts it: "you walk into a queer club, reach your arm out, and you'll touch somebody with religious trauma." brandan is a pastor, author and phd candidate in new testament who now leads a small church in queens and helps thousands reclaim a faith built on love instead of punishment. follow queerfully made on spotify and help us get this message out. find us on instagram and tiktok @queerfully.made

    Queering Christianity | Rev. Brandan Robertson | Queerfully Made S2 Ep11

  6. 21 de jul.

    From Church Stages to Theatre Stages | Gaz Dutlow & Jesse Dutlow S2 Ep10

    Gaz and Jesse Dutlow used to lead worship together on a megachurch stage. Now they're leading standing ovations in musical theatre, with credits including the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne's professional theatre scene. This week, the sibling duo joins Aaron and Ben for a conversation about the overlap between worship performance and theatre, the institutional exclusion that pushed them both out of church leadership, and the quiet, separate ways they each found language for their non-binary identities, without telling each other until they compared notes. Gaz and Jesse Dutlow are siblings, former worship leaders, and professional musical theatre performers who've worked on stages from community theatre to the Sydney Opera House. “If you're going to resist anything, resist shame.” - Jesse Dutlow Follow Queerfully Made on Spotify so the next episode lands in your queue. Find us on Instagram and TikTok @queerfully.made, and on YouTube for full episodes.

    From Church Stages to Theatre Stages | Gaz Dutlow & Jesse Dutlow S2 Ep10

  7. 14 de jul.

    ReWilded, You New Spiritual Life Out In The Wild | ReMade Series Pt.2 | Aaron Kelly & Ben Nicholson

    Follow Queerfully Made on Spotify so Part 3, RePlanted, lands in your queue the second it drops. What happens to your faith when you leave the fence behind? In Part 2 of the ReMade Series, Aaron and Ben get into the messy, non-linear journey of spiritual life after the church. Not the tidy version. The real one. They talk through the fear of losing certainty, Dr. Lynn Moresi's poem on what to keep and what to let go, breath work, tarot cards, Lady Gaga as a Hillsong conference, and the one question Aaron uses as a compass through all of it: 'does this expand love in my life?' "The biggest fence is the one that we put around God." Aaron Kelly This is Part 2 of the ReMade Series. If you haven't listened to Part 1 (Rediscover Your Identity, Episode 5), go back and start there. Instagram: @queerfully.made | queerfullymade.com If anything in this episode brought something up, please reach out to qualified support. Switchboard (queer helpline): 1800 184 527. Lifeline: 13 11 14.

    ReWilded, You New Spiritual Life Out In The Wild | ReMade Series Pt.2 | Aaron Kelly & Ben Nicholson

  8. 30 de jun.

    Coming Out of Australia's Largest Religion - AFL | Mitch Brown

    Follow Queerfully Made on Spotify so the next episode lands in your queue. The AFL and the church. Two completely different worlds. The same closet. Mitch Brown became the first openly bisexual player in AFL history in August 2025. In this conversation we talk about what the AFL and the church have in common. The same unwritten rules, the same rewards for performing straightness, the same “get back in your box” the moment you start speaking up. He also talks about the anger he's still managing, letting go of his partner Lou's hand in queer spaces to prove he belongs, and what he'd say to the 10-year-old version of himself who was hiding everything. “There are people that will accept you even if this community will drop you. It's not always this little world that you're in. There's others out there.” — Mitch Brown Mitch Brown is a former AFL player and advocate for queer inclusion in sport. Find Queerfully Made on YouTube, Instagram @queerfully.made, TikTok @queerfully.made, and queerfullymade.com

    Coming Out of Australia's Largest Religion - AFL | Mitch Brown
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Queerfully Made tackles faith, gender, sexuality, and the intersection of them all. Ex-evangelical leaders Aaron Kelly and Ben Nicholson, once church insiders, host raw stories from LGBTQ+ Christians, ex-Christians, pastors, ex-pastors and sharp experts. Closeted and scared? Healing from church wounds? An ally ready to stand up but needing insight? We’re here to unpack identity, reforge spirituality, and build a fierce, inclusive community. Subscribe today! Follow us at www.instagram.com/queerfully.made

Informações

  • Criado por
    Aaron Kelly and Ben Nicholson
  • Anos de atividade
    2025 - 2026
  • Episódios
    28
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © Aaron Kelly and Ben Nicholson
  • Site do podcast
    Queerfully Made

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