EPISODE · Apr 19, 2025 · 22 MIN
A Queer Easter Vigil: resurrection after religious trauma
from Blessed Are the Binary Breakers · host Avery Arden
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?Content warning: discussions of religious trauma and queerphobia; brief, non-specific suicide mention.Click here for an episode transcript.Click here for the article mentioned in the episode (cw anti-trans violence).Taize music: "Within Our Darkest Night," performed by UUSantaMonica.
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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?Content warning: discussions of religious trauma and queerphobia; brief, non-specific suicide mention.Click here for an episode transcript.Click here for the article mentioned in the episode (cw anti-trans violence).Taize music: "Within Our Darkest Night," performed by UUSantaMonica.
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