Love Letters From Rev. Sex S1:04 A Love Letter to Our Ancestors - And the Magic Within Us

In this intimate witching-hour love letter, Reverend Sex speaks to those who were once taught to fear their magic, distrust their ancestors, and turn away from ritual and remembrance. This episode arrives during the season of Halloween, Samhain, and Día de los Muertos in order to reclaim what was taken from us in the name of purity, control, and white Christian Supremacy.In This EpisodeReverend Sex shares:💫 A midnight meditation on finding each other in a chaotic world💫 The painful erasure of ancestral practices under white Christian Supremacy💫 A call for faith communities to reclaim ministries of death, ritual, and care💫 The spiritual and political power of ancestor work💫 Confronting complicated lineages — colonizer and colonized, heroes and harm-doers💫 The sacred task of tending to the stories we inherit and the futures we shapeThis episode honors those who were denied their histories — and those who are courageously reclaiming them.A Blessing from This EpisodeOur dead are still very much alive.Their legacies live in our bones, our breath, our choices.To remember them is to remember ourselves — and to heal what history tried to erase.🌌 Take This With YouYou are not alone.Your people are with you — even the ones you never met, even the ones you wrestle with.There is power in remembering, and holiness in repair.🖤 For Those Who Need to Hear ItThis love letter is for every church kid who was told magic was dangerous,every queer child who lost their ancestors to doctrine,every soul learning to speak again with the dead,and every heart choosing remembrance over forgetting.📣 ConnectHosted by Rev. Sex (Rev. Alba Onofrio - Executive Director of Soulforce), this podcast channel offers connection, reflection, and community for anyone feeling spiritually marginalized or exiled but still resiliently faithful while centering dialogue on Queer, trans, and feminist theology.The platform gathers people of diverse Christian denominations, pastors, activists, and scholars to discuss gender identity, sex, and pleasure in the context of faith, aiming to heal the wounds of colonizing religion and create a welcoming space for topics often considered taboo in religious spaces.Join in our community of Sinvergüenzas by visiting our Teología Sin Vergüenza homepage or our Spanish WhatsApp Lista de Difusión. If you’d like to support this cutting-edge movement of ferocious Latinx power building, please make a donation.https://soulforce.org/donate/Find episode transcripts at https://soulforce.org/podcast/