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Your Other Brothers Your Other Brothers
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We're a storytelling tribe navigating issues of faith, homosexuality, and masculinity. Together. A place for content and a place for community. Our journey started many years ago on another blogging network and continues here today with a blog, podcast, and YouTube channel, along with a thriving Patreon community. Attracted to the same sex, we follow Jesus with the conviction of living under a traditional sexual ethic. We never chose our sexuality or our story, but we believe we’ve been chosen for one another in this story. So pull up a chair, or grab a walking stick or maybe a pen, and come journey with us!
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Less Podcasts! And Also More! A Tom/YOB/YOS Update
It’s another community update pod; catch it now before it disappears like an asteroid passing over…
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Email Tom: tom@yourotherbrothers.com
Call the YOBline: 1.706.389.8009
Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
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CC083: Tom & Erin Celebrate Our First YOB+YOS Zoom and Lean into Lent!
Erin returns to discuss the development of Your Other Sisters, including our recently held coed Zoom call with Your Other Brothers! We recap our YOB and YOS call, including a critical icebreaker of our favorite condiments. We invite all who are interested in these YOB and YOS developments to join us! Man or woman, shoot us an email to learn more: contact[at]yourotherbrothers[dot]com
For the rest of the episode, we discuss this current season of Lent in these weeks leading up to Easter. We share some of our spiritual upbringings, including our experience with, or without, Lent, as well as with fasting in general. What are our motivations for fasting, and how do we practice fasting in healthy, God-honoring ways? How can we take our relationships with God in this season of Lent and continue growing them on the other side of Easter Sunday?
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
Are you observing Lent this year, or what is God teaching you in this season before Easter? Have you practiced fasting as a spiritual discipline? What prevents you or guides your motivations in fasting?
PODCAST EPISODE PAGE
YOB ConvoCast 083
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
Tom's Lent blog: "Do I Fast to Punish Myself or Meet with God?"
YOBcast 088: Advent & Sexuality
YOBcast 094: Lent & Sexuality
YOB ConvoCast 071: Erin Resonates with Queer Culture and Pansexuality
YOB ConvoCast 072: Tom Feels Out "Androsexual" and Recaps the Series with Erin!
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GET IN TOUCH
Call the YOBline: 706.389.8009
Email us: podcast@yourotherbrothers.com
Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
SUPPORT YOB
Pledge and join our Patreon community!
Shop the YOB store!
Give a one-time gift!
FOLLOW YOB
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YOB's "Heart of a Brother" Spotify playlist
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“Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed. -
CC082: Tom & Daniel Pitch this Summer's First European YOBBERS Retreat!
Our resident Enneagram Seven and unofficial international correspondent, Daniel, returns to pitch this summer's special gathering of YOBBERS -- in Europe! He joins Tom to discuss a smaller-scale retreat or "holiday" somewhere in the Mediterranean, inviting all who are interested to email him ASAP: daniel[at]yourotherbrothers[dot]com
Daniel also catches us up on his life in London -- including the exciting news that he is now a British citizen! He tells us about one country where he's already traveled with his new passport, as well as another on the horizon to see a certain female pop star perform. Finally, we invite AI to listen in on our entire Zoom conversation and summarize the episode! It's...chillingly accurate.
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Where else should YOB plan a future retreat? What theme should we explore for another YOB ConvoCast series this summer?
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Daniel's Enneagram Seven ConvoCast
PODCAST EPISODE PAGE
➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2024/03/08/yob-convocast-082-tom-daniel-pitch-the-first-european-yobbers-retreat
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➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465
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➡️ Tom’s posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/tom/
➡️ Daniel's posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/daniel/
GET IN TOUCH
📞 Call the YOBline: 706.389.8009
📧 Email us: podcast@yourotherbrothers.com
✉️ Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
SUPPORT YOB
➡️ Join our Patreon community! http://patreon.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Shop the YOB Store! https://store.yourotherbrothers.com
➡️ Give a one-time gift: https://linktr.ee/yourotherbros
FOLLOW YOB
➡️ Facebook: http://facebook.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourotherbros
➡️ YouTube: http://youtube.com/yourotherbrothers
➡️ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@yourotherbros
➡️ “Heart of a Brother” Spotify playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_-P-9jAEy3Ise3zagEOWdnpdlyAcuaW
MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed. -
CC081: Tom & Andrew Review "Heartstopper" and Discuss Asexuality!
First-time guest Andrew joins Tom to discuss Netflix’s Heartstopper! It’s a queer coming-of-age show that many in our YOB community have enjoyed, though its depictions of queer romance could also be distracting for some (nothing sexual in the first two seasons, just lots of same-sex kissing). We discuss what we loved from the characters in romantic pairings to the loyal friendships that ultimately reinforce this show. We devote our remaining time to the show’s lone asexual character as two people in YOB who identify as asexual ourselves. What did we resonate with in this character, and where was the disconnect?
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Have you seen Heartstopper? What did you enjoy about the show, or where did you find something lacking? If you also identify with asexuality, what did you make of the show's take with its asexual character?
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Keegan's ConvoCast on bisexuality
➡️ Tom's ConvoCast on asexuality
PODCAST EPISODE PAGE
➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2024/02/23/yob-convocast-081-tom-andrew-review-heartstopper-and-discuss-asexuality
RATE/REVIEW US ON APPLE PODCASTS
➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465
FOLLOW THE CAST
➡️ Tom’s posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/tom/
GET IN TOUCH
📞 Call the YOBline: 706.389.8009
📧 Email us: podcast@yourotherbrothers.com
✉️ Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
SUPPORT YOB
➡️ Join our Patreon community! http://patreon.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Shop the YOB Store! https://store.yourotherbrothers.com
➡️ Give a one-time gift: https://linktr.ee/yourotherbros
FOLLOW YOB
➡️ Facebook: http://facebook.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourotherbros
➡️ YouTube: http://youtube.com/yourotherbrothers
➡️ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@yourotherbros
➡️ “Heart of a Brother” Spotify playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_-P-9jAEy3Ise3zagEOWdnpdlyAcuaW
MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed. -
CC080: Tom & Andy Talk Super Bowl LVIII and Taylor Swift!
Tom’s straight younger brother Andy returns for his yearly appearance on the podcast to educate us on this year’s Super Bowl matchup between the Chiefs and 49ers! Beyond merely giving us the players to look out for, Vegas’s odds for the winner of this game, and his own prediction, he also educates us on a truly shocking Taylor Swift lyric. We dive into all the T-Swift and Travis Kelce storylines, along with the often loud objections to their media coverage. Is toxic masculinity out of control?!
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Who do you got in this year's Super Bowl? What are your thoughts on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's media coverage?
PODCAST EPISODE PAGE
➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2024/02/05/yob-convocast-080-tom-andy-talk-super-bowl-lviii-and-taylor-swift
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➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465
FOLLOW THE CAST
➡️ Tom’s posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/tom/
GET IN TOUCH
📞 Call the YOBline: 706.389.8009
📧 Email us: podcast@yourotherbrothers.com
✉️ Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
SUPPORT YOB
➡️ Join our Patreon community! http://patreon.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Shop the YOB Store! https://store.yourotherbrothers.com
➡️ Give a one-time gift: https://linktr.ee/yourotherbros
FOLLOW YOB
➡️ Facebook: http://facebook.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourotherbros
➡️ YouTube: http://youtube.com/yourotherbrothers
➡️ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@yourotherbros
➡️ “Heart of a Brother” Spotify playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_-P-9jAEy3Ise3zagEOWdnpdlyAcuaW
MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed. -
CC079: Alex Holds Hands with His Straight Guy Friends!
Alex is announced as our newest regular YOB contributor, and we get right into analyzing his blogs! We start with discussing a reflection of last fall’s YOBBERS retreat written by his mom and how this unique blog even came to be on our site. We also go behind the scenes and into greater depth with his recently posted blog about holding hands with his straight guy friends: one story in which a friend reached across a restaurant table to hold his hand, and another in which Alex extended his own hand toward a friend while walking with him in the park. How did fears of PDA impact both of these hand-holdings, and what other fears or insecurities did Alex wrestle with – both in the receiving and expressing of such open same-sex physical touch?
COMMENT ON THIS EPISODE
➡️ Have you held hands with a male friend, straight or otherwise, in a public setting? What fears and/or triumphs have you experienced in the realm of physical touch with other men?
LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE
➡️ Alex's 2023 retreat blog: "Renewing Hope and Forming a Liturgy for Brothers at the YOBBERS Retreat"
➡️ Alex's mom's 2023 retreat blog: "Impressions of the YOBBERS Retreat from the Heart of a Mom"
➡️ Alex's hand-holding blog: "The Healing Power of Holding Hands with Another Man"
PODCAST EPISODE PAGE
➡️ https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/2024/01/26/yob-convocast-079-alex-holds-hands-with-his-straight-guy-friends
RATE/REVIEW US ON APPLE PODCASTS
➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465
FOLLOW THE CAST
➡️ Tom’s posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/tom/
➡️ Alex's posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/alex/
GET IN TOUCH
📞 Call the YOBline: 706.389.8009
📧 Email us: podcast@yourotherbrothers.com
✉️ Mail us: Your Other Brothers / P.O. Box 843 / Asheville, NC 28802
SUPPORT YOB
➡️ Join our Patreon community! http://patreon.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Shop the YOB Store! https://store.yourotherbrothers.com
➡️ Give a one-time gift: https://linktr.ee/yourotherbros
FOLLOW YOB
➡️ Facebook: http://facebook.com/yourotherbros
➡️ Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourotherbros
➡️ YouTube: http://youtube.com/yourotherbrothers
➡️ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@yourotherbros
➡️ “Heart of a Brother” Spotify playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_-P-9jAEy3Ise3zagEOWdnpdlyAcuaW
MUSIC CREDIT
➡️ “Growing Pains” by Layup; 100% clearance through Musicbed.
Customer Reviews
An Absolute Rescue
I just learned about this community on Thursday (3/2) after many long, lonely years as a Side B Christian man in a mixed orientation marriage. I have a small but mighty band of men in my life who know my story and love me, but they can't relate to this part of me. In these few brief days, I have been so flooded with hope and gratitude to Jesus for the prospect of knowing and being known by others like me.
I've been drinking from the firehose of these podcasts over the last few days and am beyond grateful to this brave community for existing and being open to me. Listening to the podcasts feels like sitting around a circle with friends I've always longed deeply for, but for whom I had pretty much all but given up hope of ever finding. Thank you, God, I've found them now!
Keep up the amazing work, brothers. Your playfulness, transparency, and courage to go where few others dare to go - and with such compassion and honesty - are nothing short of a miraculous rescue beyond what I thought was possible.
Encouragement
I’ve listened to YOB podcasts and read its blogs for years. I have watched Tom as he matures in wisdom and openness. Side B folks are a minority within a minority, so it’s comforting to know that YOB offers a place for them to gather; to share their thoughts, feelings and woes; and to grow in strength and wisdom together.
One suggestion for improvement: The content seems to have become light on spiritual content, mutual encouragement in faith, and deeper men’s work. Something to consider.
Nevertheless, the work done is wonderful and keep it up!
A Podcast for All
I’m probably not in the category of people that Tom or any of the other hosts would consider “the target audience”. Nevertheless, I listen to the show regularly and always come away having learned something new or feeling rejuvenated in my faith. YOB presents real people with real struggles and questions trying to navigate their lives with their faith. Anyone with any amount of humiliation revolving around some social aspect that the Christian church has deemed shameful will find refuge in the musings and thoughtful dialogue of these guys. A big recommend for anyone with any amount of history or interest in following Jesus in the 21st century.