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Sacred Counsel Meg Holiday & Brian Recker
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.9 • 45 Ratings
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Your straight-talking queer bestie and favorite (ex) pastor are here with all the honest, compassionate, and refreshingly explicit advice you didn’t know you needed. Meg Holiday and Brian Recker each deconstructed their faith in their own ways, and went from having all the right answers to wrestling with all the big questions. Join these two pastor's kids as they spill the tea and dish out wisdom on love, God, religion, sex, relationships, and all other sacred things.
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Season 2 Episode 8: There's Nothing Like Family
Brian and Meg answer two listener letters, each discussing family dynamics. How do we care less about whether or not we are accepted by our parents? How do we help family members understand that they are making us feel rejected? Meg shares some very poignant advice born from her own experience. We also discuss the presidential debate and Brian gets excited about ranked choice voting.
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Season 2 Episode 7: PURE with Stephanie Stalvey
Brian and Meg dive into purity culture with Stephanie Stalvey, a graphic novelist who mines her own story and describes the intricacies of navigating purity culture, as well as showing a path towards reclaiming sexual autonomy on the other side. Her book shines a light on experiences many of us resonate with, and she is just as insightful in this brilliant conversation!
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Season 2 Episode 6: A Conversation With Sally Osborne
Brian and Meg are joined by Sally Osborne, a former Mormon who left the church and came out as a lesbian. She now works to help people come out into their truest selves. We discuss her journey out of high control religion, and how we can support people in all kinds of coming out journeys.
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Season 2 Episode 5: Why Pride Matters
In this episode, Brian and Meg acknowledge and celebrate Meg’s first Pride since coming out, and reflect on what Pride means, and how we have each evolved in our relationship with Pride celebrations. We also discuss Trump’s indictment, the wasteland of the US political environment, and the dehumanization that allows a continuing genocide in Gaza.
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Season 2 Episode 4: Why Queer Churches Can't Be Mega Churches With Rev. Brandan Robertson
Brian and Meg are joined by Brandan Robertson, a queer pastor, to discuss his upcoming book on 'queering' the Bible! Brandan tells us his favorite queer Bible stories, and answers questions like; should queer people care about the Bible at all?
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Season 2 Episode 3: Trans Rights & Psychics/Mediums
Brian and Meg dive into a listener letter about psychics and mediums, and have some fun discussion and disagreement about skepticism and spirituality. They also discuss trans rights, and why it's so important to let parents and doctors make decisions for children, rather than religious organizations enforcing their agendas.
Customer Reviews
Like a friend
I’m so grateful for these conversations which feel like when your close friends finally get, expound upon, and offer new insights on issues that have been swirling around in your head for years. The hosts are a bit of a hug, a bit of an anchor in the wilderness of deconstruction.
Great podcast…
Love these conversations and guests, hosts and all the good stuff however Brian keeps interrupting EVERYONE over and over. It makes me so uncomfortable that he’s not giving guests the space to finish a thought or explain their p.o.v. before he jumps in and talks over them. I feel bad for his co-host the wonderful Meg - its like she can’t get more than a few words out before he swoops in and takes control of the conversation. I assume he’s just really excited about what’s happening and doesn’t understand how much he’s dominating the discussion but a little less input from him might be really great.
Deconstruction
Such an amazing podcast that is so raw and real dealing with deconstruction.